Things To Avoid When Investing in a Custom Rug

Buying a custom rug is an extremely personal decision, it enables you to express your taste and style and may be the perfect opportunity to have that one furniture piece that ties together a room, or multiple rooms. However, when committing to something as significant as a bespoke furniture piece it is important to get it right.

There are many considerations that needs to be taken into account when making, or commissioning, your personal bespoke rug.

Firstly you should consider if you have something similar already out there. Existing designs certainly are a safe way of getting a rug that you know will continue to work. I someone on the market is creating a rug design the chances are that it works. Which begs the question if you need a custom rug in the first place. When there is a rug out there in the proper size and colours then chances are to be less expensive than having a rug made bespoke.

The price increase for custom rugs isn’t this is the design process but the economies of scale involved in purchasing dyes, drafting up the design onto a computer, then onto a canvas for hand-tufting, or a rug ‘cartoon’ for hand-knotted rugs, and also small-scale shipping costs being substantially greater than large batch production. That said, existing rugs will be the most common source of inspiration for custom rugs – many custom rugs take a preexisting design and modify it slightly, or adapt the colours while keeping the pattern exactly the same, or simply alter the size to match. Of course some custom rugs can be more cost-effective than designer rugs giving an identical quality at a lesser price-tag, the only difference being the lack of a designer sticker underneath.

The next pitfall in order to avoid when commissioning a custom rug is getting your design wrong at the start, changing components of your rug once the manufacturing process has begun will not be possible and if it really is it could be costly. Easier to take longer at the look stage than realise you earn a mistake later on.

Choosing design and colours could be a careful balance. An ultra-modern and patterned rug may be perfect for right now but does it look right in the event that you change your decor and when it does not, are you OK with that? Conversely, having a custom rug made to own it bland may defeat the reason, so putting some thought into a design that you’ll love for years ahead helps to make it a higher value purchase. However, custom rugs don’t need to cost the earth and will often cost less than you’ll think, getting a quote and sending off ideas of designs costs nothing. Find out costs and timeframes and take your decision from there. custom rugs