We’ve been looking for just the perfect area rug for our living room for probably two years. Either what we have found has been perfect but too expensive…or it has been the right price and looks like something Bird would have made.
We have a lot of traffic on our living room carpet, and it’s showing a lot of wear. Also, last year it started bubbling right under the coffee table, and it bothers me to no end. (Apartments….I tell you what. This carpet was brand new when we moved in two years ago, but it has really worn out quickly.) Anyway, we’ve been looking for an area rug.
Last night, we found it.
“This is it, Joey. This is the one I’ve been looking for,” I told him.
We were standing in Target (the mecca of all things inexpensive and yet wonderful), and I was pointing to a brown and green rug in the middle of the stack.
“This one?” Joey pulled it out.
“Yes. That’s it.” We flipped it around to try to figure out how much it was, and were pleasantly surprised to discover that it was 30% off, and thus well in the range of what we had figured was acceptable to spend on an area rug.
“OK, we’re getting it,” Joey said. Just like that.
“Seriously?”
“Yep.”
And so we hauled the rug to the register, paid for it, and managed to squash it into our car. No easy task when you drive a Toyota Corolla, but it was one we were equal to.
We got home and Joey vacuumed all the fuzzy “I’m a brand new rug” off of it, then we dragged it into the living room and set it up. I was pleased with the results.
I love, love, love leafy green things. Especially on rugs when the leafy green-ness comes in two different textures and shades.
Happily, the rug covers up the sad wear patterns on our carpet AND the evil carpet bubble. Perfection all around.
Oh, and last but not least…
The really cool bonsai tree that MIL got me for Christmas last year (which used to sit on the bar in that corner) finally croaked. I tried so hard to keep it alive, I really, really did. But alas, I stink at live plants. Anyway, Joey got me this to replace it.
This will be really hard for me to kill since it’s not alive.
(Sorry, MIL. I really liked that bonsai tree. I followed the directions and everything…but I just couldn’t keep it from getting creepy moldy things growing on it, and the leaves were turning black and brown. It was very sad. I’m keeping the planter it came in, though, because I can’t kill that. And plus it is cool-looking.)
It’s a pretty rug. I like it (not that that matters).
I REALLY like the rug! I need something new like that for the kitchen. It’s getting pretty scurvy. But you know how I am about shopping…..
The new rug is very nice looking. Target is the bomb dot com. And I’m really sorry about the bonsai tree.