Wool area rugs are probably the most luxurious and opulent feeling and look you could give a room. As well as looking wonderful and feeling plush and soft, a wool area plug is very easy to care for and will last a long time. A wool area rug can be very easily cleaned with a little soap and water and you have no need to bring in a specialist cleaner to do the job.
Actually the ease of cleaning wool area rugs is one major reason to buy yourself a new wool area rug. Other materials require specialist cleaning, or you have to buy chemicals to clean them and this is not desirable from a financial point of view, or from an environmentally friendly one.
Imagine that you have an area rug that is woven with silk or some other expensive but delicate fiber and the label on the back reads ‘do not wash, specialist clean only’. You might have a child who comes running in with muddy feet, spills drinks, or spreads chocolate onto your rug. Maybe you have a pet dog, or cat which comes running in with wet feet and rubs itself all over you new rug. If you have to go out and buy specialist cleaning products, or call a specialist cleaner in to deal with the mess, you might be tempted to leave it a bit longer. So, you do the best you can and the wool area rug gets worse and worse until you have no choice but pay to have it cleaned. This does not happen with your wool area rugs.
All you will need to clean up your wool area rugs is a bar of ordinary white soap and a little warm water. Rub any marks, blot it dry with an absorbent cloth, or towel and leave it to dry. The marks will disappear and even large wool area rugs with big dirt tracks will look like new again. You could never do that with the kind of material that we mentioned earlier because it would leave a mark.
You will find that area rugs made of wool are available in a number of different shapes, sizes and designs. You can buy round wool area rugs, half moon wool area rugs, square wool area rug options, oblong or even hexagon and octagon shapes in a whole range of colors and traditional and contemporary designs.
The choice is huge if you take a look around the internet or in your local stores. Decor4u has a great selection of designs at different prices. A 5 x 7 hand tufted wool area rug made from New Zealand wool, from the ALM Rug Collection will cost you just under $500. The ‘Dots’ design is made and crafted in India and is a mixture of muted cherry red, gold, sage green and antique blue dots set on a squared background. It is a contemporary design which will match almost any color schemes. A stylish selection of contemporary wool area rugs in a modern design will last you for many years and are easy to maintain.