Monsoon season is accompanied by the need to adjust the weather slightly, yet the need to introduce intelligent interior changes to make your home fashionable, warm, and functional. To celebrate this monsoon season, handmade rugs are the ideal and fitting accessory to add style to your monsoon decor, while also bringing cosiness and character to your home. During the rainy season, however, it is imperative to pay additional attention to styling and maintaining your carpets. Thankfully, this monsoon season the Rugs and Beyond have come up with their top 5 styling rug tips to give your interiors a new look and a fresh feel:
- Choose Moisture-Resistant Rugs: Natural fibers may have a problem with moisture and humidity during monsoons. Use handwoven carpets of wool or cotton dhurries, which are more resistant to moisture, breathable and resistant to dampness. Silk rugs should be avoided in heavy-traffic and open spaces during this season since they might be sensitive to moisture. Wool as naturally moisture-resistant, is still one of the best rainy season rugs.
- Go Light and Bright: The skies of the monsoons are grey, but the greyness should not dominate your interiors. Add colour and sunshine to your place by using bright and joyful handmade rugs with flowery designs, geometrical patterns, or pastel colours. Your living room or bedroom can use a good dose of light-colored handknotted rug amidst all the colours that you almost have too much of.
- Layer Rugs for Cosy Vibes: Not all clothing that uses layering is reserved only for winters. You can layer a plush wool rug over a flatweave dhurrie as a way of bringing a sense of comfort with texture and dimension to the surroundings. This also prevents wet floors from directly touching your expensively made carpet.
- Focus on Placement: Put your rugs strategically in the monsoon. Do not use rugs along the windows, doors or the entry points because they may end up absorbing rainwater or mud. Rather, style your carpets in centre spaces, under coffee tables or by the sides of beds where they are unlikely to get into contact with humidity.
- Proper Care and Maintenance: This is a season where additional care on the rugs is demanded. Rug cleaning should be done by vacuuming regularly to prevent the accumulation of dust and ensure that the place does not get wet. Be reminded that in case your rug becomes wet, ventilate it before it has a chance to develop mildew. Use a rug pad to have a better grip and ventilation. At Rugs and Beyond, we suggest rolling and storing your luxury silk carpets during the time of peak monsoons and be happy to use the cotton dhurries that are easily washed.
Final Thoughts
The monsoon season would also be perfect to change up your interiors with a proper rug styling. It can be as minor as layering to stay comfortable or the appropriate materials that make the trick. Visit Rugs and Beyond and search among the various collections of handmade carpets, which are ideal for each of the seasons. Enjoy the rains in style even as your house stays warm, dry and naturally cool looking!