The cooler weather has brought out the sense of urgency found this time of year, as we make preparations’ to entertain the loved ones and friends who are expected as our guest during the Holiday festivities to come. Our preparations’ usually mean changes to the every day decor, as we bring in the required touches of the season, the bright colored ornaments, Christmas trees, and embellishments that change our homes into Winter Wonderlands of fun and frivolity.

Your Christmas festivities usually mean a vast amount of traffic moving in and out of your homes; constantly. One way to decorate and protect your floor coverings is to use area rugs with seasonal colors and motifs. These can be purchased for use during Christmas and stored away for use each year; they clean up easily and retain their beauty and longevity with proper care.

If you begin your Holiday decorating preparations’ on the outside with the hanging of a symbolic wreath on the door to signal the beginning of the Christmas Season, you can add an outdoor rug as a welcoming mat at the same time. Using a cranberry red rug can be a signal seen from the street, which sends the message your house is preparing for Christmas!
Bringing a bright green rug to rest on the floor of your entryway will be the perfect place to welcome your guest into your home. Place a table nearby with a collection of tasty treats, like spicy cookies, and the scents will pull them in.

Using colorful floor runners that feature Christmas scenes can protect the beauty of a hardwood floors shine and be a warm place for bare feet to tiptoe down the hallway on Christmas morning. Rugs placed throughout your home can provide warmth, touches of the season, and add depth to any surface they cover.

Using bright colored rugs in the kitchen and bath can add luster to these smaller rooms, and bring a smile when they carry whimsical scenes of elves and reindeer. You can use a particularly bright colored, natural Flokati rug to build the entire theme of a room around. Placing these beautiful wool rugs in a living room can create a focal point for your guest, other than the Christmas tree.

If you traditionally use a real tree, placing it atop a braided red rug, and placing a tree skirt around it, can make clean-up of fallen needles simple after the Holidays. It will also serve to protect your floor coverings from the pressure marks of the tree stand and make moving it for adjustments a lot easier.

Since rugs come in a diverse selection of styles, colors, and sizes you can find the right one for any situation or event. The more festive a room appears from the floor up, the more finished your room’s appearance will be. Choosing coordinating accents and Christmas decorations is quite easy when you choose a rug that reflects your sense of style, and personality of your home. If you are eclectic by nature, then by all means use area rugs with modern designs, and features of bright bold colors. If your style is more laid back, the softness of solid colors and traditional prints in rug choices would be perfect for you.

Rooms that have oval rugs and floor runners will appear larger than they really are which can help if your rooms are small or narrow. Choose matching wreaths for the walls, and garland or swag for the cabinetry and your room will glow with Christmas cheer.

Author Bio: Seraphina is a senior staff writer dedicated to helping you learn about Christmas home decorating. Her favorite Christmas home decor accessories are red area rugs and colored flokati area rugs.

Category: Home Management
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