Faux Fur Rug – The Rustic-Chic Décor for Your Home

Sometimes people are bored with the same look of their rooms and think of redecorating. Maybe change the furnishings, replace old items with new ones, change the color of the paint etc. Women especially love to keep decorating. If you are thinking of decoration, why not think of using rugs for your floors? Using floor rugs have some benefits. Rugs are a great way to add style to your room and change the overall look of the rooms and they are a very useful item for any home. They can make any home look cozy and warm, especially during winter. Rugs can protect your floors from scratches, can act as a focal point, can suit any interior, can be used on the floor, as a throw or wall hanging and can be used to separate zones within rooms.

Rugs are available as hand-woven rugs and machine made rugs, the later being cheaper than the former, and they are available in various shapes, designs, materials, colors, price and prints and selecting a rug for your home is not easy, and requires some thinking. Persian rugs with their unique beauty and designs are very expensive. Rugs made from natural fur are also expensive and because of the price and love for animals, people hesitate to buy natural fur rugs.

The trend today has turned to using faux fur rugs. A faux fur rug is a rug made from faux or fake fur. The word ‘faux’ means fake in French. The fur is made from synthetic fur and they don’t look cheap or shoddy and are made to look like real fur, that sometimes it is really difficult to tell the difference. People can buy it without the fear of any animal being killed and because it is affordable. Faux fur is also used for making blankets, bags, coats, purses, stuffed toys etc. Rug manufacturers have shifted to manufacturing rugs made from faux furs to respect animal protection acts. If you are thinking of eco-friendly item for your home décor, then there is no better choice than a faux fur rug, because it is hypoallergenic and can be made formaldehyde-free.

It is not a good idea to buy expensive rugs and place it in areas where there is heavy traffic, because dust and dirt can damage it. Such expensive carpets are best to be hung on the wall. A faux fur rug is very durable and it can withstand any traffic and they are suitable as your entrance door mat or in the hallway. Not only that, the faux fur rug can be cleaned by just shaking it vigorously to get rid of dust and dirt. When placing a faux fur rug on the floor, a very important factor is to make sure that they do not slip, by using proper rug pads.

For animal lovers who fear that animals have been raised and killed to make rugs, and do not like to use original fur rugs, the faux fur rug is the best choice.

The author has a business where he is having a natural or exotic animal print faux fur rug to suit every decor & budget, and matching decorator pillows too.