Rug Buyers Blog

News from Hudson Star Observer: St. Croix Trading Co. partners The partners in the St. Croix Trading Co. are, from left, Gerald Tank, his sons Scott and Dave, and Andy Yarrington. They are looking forward owning their own 63,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility. Photo by Randy Hanson The former Johnson Controls plant at 2101 O’Neil [...]

News from Furniture Today: Furniture Today Staff — Furniture Today, May 11, 2012  Kevin Kennedy SADDLE BROOK, N.J. — Nourison has named Kevin Kennedy vice president of its Home Textiles Division. He will report to Steven Peykar, co-CEO of Nourison. Kennedy will be responsible for developing and strengthening Nourison’s business as a manufacturer of home [...]

News from Las Vegas Review-Journal: Posted: May 10, 2012 | 2:06 a.m. DEAR GAIL: We’ve just finished landscaping our backyard and want to spend more time out on our patio. We’d like it to feel like another family room, not a typical outdoor patio. Any ideas? – Betsy P. DEAR BETSY: We also like to [...]

News from Furniture Today: Furniture Today Staff — Furniture Today, May 7, 2012 ANDERSON, S.C. — Rug manufacturer Orian Rugs will be featured starting today on the television series, “World’s Greatest!…” The 30-minute show on the ION network highlighting the “world’s greatest companies, products, places, and people,” according to a press release. Each show features [...]

News from Brandon Sun: If there’s one recurring piece of advice I offer my clients — no matter the style or size of their spaces — it’s that most rooms benefit greatly from the addition of an area rug or two. Besides providing comfort underfoot, they offer inspiration for colour schemes and hide unsightly flooring, [...]

News from Curbed National: Thursday, May 3, 2012, by Alexa Stevenson Welcome to Why This Works, a new Curbed column in which decorator and former shelter-magazine editor Alexa Stevenson looks point-blank at professionally decorated rooms and breaks down the elements that make it work. Have a suggestion for someone whose work should be showcased? Do [...]

News from Furniture Today: Thomas Russell — Furniture Today, May 1, 2012 COON RAPIDS, Minn. — HOM Furniture says it is expanding its array of flooring products with its new World Floor and Rugs department. The Top 100 retailer already sells area rugs in its World Rugs department. It recently added the other flooring products [...]

News from TCPalm: A rug is the central component (quite literally) to any room’s design. Even the absence of a rug makes a statement in a space. Because of the importance (and price tag) a rug carries, I thought I had better get it right the first time. So, I sat down to research the [...]

News from TopTenWholesale News: We wrote earlier this month suggesting that wholesalers and manufacturers could take advantage of Pinterest. Now we have an example for you. Surya, a manufacturer of area rugs and home accessories, launched some pretty awesome design boards on Pinterest last week. It didn’t take long before the company had 148 followers [...]

News from Las Vegas Review-Journal: Posted: Mar. 29, 2012 | 2:04 a.m. “Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.” Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet and professor, “Elegiac Verse” (1881) Everybody loves hardwood floors, tile floors and even concrete floors. One thing we should all remember about these hard-surface floors is [...]