Buying a custom rug is a very personal decision, it allows you to express your taste and style and is 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 very important get it right.
There are numerous considerations that needs to be taken into account when making, or commissioning, your own bespoke rug.
Firstly you should think about when there is something similar already out there. logo mats Existing designs certainly are a safe way of getting a rug you know will continue to work. I someone out there is making a rug design the probabilities are that it works. Which begs the question if you need a custom rug to begin with. When there is a rug out there in the right size and colours then chances are to be less costly than having a rug made bespoke.
The cost 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, together with small-scale shipping costs being substantially greater than large batch production. That being said, existing rugs will be the most common way to obtain inspiration for custom rugs – many custom rugs take an existing design and modify it slightly, or adapt the colours while keeping the pattern the same, or simply alter the size to match. Needless to say some custom rugs can be more cost-effective than designer rugs giving a similar quality at a lower price-tag, the only real difference being having less a designer sticker underneath.
The next pitfall in order to avoid when commissioning a custom rug gets 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. Better to take longer at the look stage than realise you have made a mistake later on.
Choosing design and colours is actually a careful balance. An ultra-modern and patterned rug might be perfect for right now but will it look right in the event that you change your decor and if it does not, are you OK with that? Conversely, having a custom rug designed to own it bland may defeat the purpose, so putting some thought right into a design that you’ll love for years ahead helps to ensure it is a high 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 some ideas of designs costs nothing. Find out costs and timeframes and take your decision from there.
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