7 Benefits of Using Rugs on Hardwood Floors
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Wondering about flooring for your home? Solid hardwoods are a timeless, eye-catching option that come with a long list of benefits. Hardwood floors are a sleek and impressive addition to any home interior. They’re a classic twist within a modern household, or can be restored and preserved within older houses to look polished and good-as-new. Easy to clean and keep maintained, hardwood is bound to give your home that really standout, refined appearance.
Hardwood flooring also allows for plenty of wiggle-room when it comes to interior creativity – a wonderful canvas to work with when placing eye-catching, decorative rugs! While hardwood floors can really add character to your home, they can come off a bit cold and hard. So, it’s important to utilise soft furnishings as much as possible to bring softness to your home.
Here are 7 reasons why a hardwood floor is greatly benefited through the addition of rugs – a winning combination with plenty of positives!
1. Dimension, Elegance & Cosiness
Hardwood floors not only add a touch of elegance to your home, but also help to retain warmth. Team your hardwood floor with a classic shaggy rug or carpet, and you’ll add to that already warm, cosy feel. Wood helps to give a room the illusion of being bigger than it is, while rugs placed on top of the hardwood floors help to stop the room feeling too stark and bare. Keep one corner open and expansive with wood flooring left exposed, while enclosing other areas of your room with a piece of shaggy material can add different spaces for different moods e.g. a library corner for reading or a “TV den” within your open lounge.
2. Low Maintenance
Hardwood floors are pretty low-maintenance and easy to keep clean. There’s the ability for any surface dirt to be swept, steam-cleaned, mopped or vacuumed away easily without any hassle – and if you spill something, all you need to do is wipe it up! You may think it’s a risky addition, but adding rugs to your hardwood floor can help to cover any surface damage caused by high-heeled shoes or wear/cracking over time – so this helps to provide a barrier between foot and floor.
3. Strength and Resistance
Many households upgrade to solid wood floors due to their appealing strength and resistance. Scratches and other abrasions are always a possibility but not-easily caused, due to the durability and long-wearing nature of hardwood. Adding a variety of rugs in different shapes and textures can provide more than just aesthetic variety. They can also add an extra layer of durability to the floor adding to its resistance factor – a great reason to invest in a couple of eye-catching rugs.
4. Warmth-retention & Insulation
Unlike carpet, hardwood floors do not trap dust, animal dander, pollen, particulate matter or other common allergens, meaning they’re often a must for allergy sufferers. If allergies aren’t a problem faced by your household occupants, you can add in a few rugs for basic warmth-retention and floor insulation. Rugs dotted around your space can help to stop warmth leaving the floorboards and protect cold feet through the winter months.
5. Colour Doesn’t Fade
Many carpets will lose their lustre over time, if they’re not cleaned or serviced properly. Hardwood doesn’t face this issue, instead only the victim to the odd surface-abrasion. Adding a rug to your hardwood floor, and making sure you’re properly maintaining your rug, can prevent the wood from any unexpected abrasions. It’s far easier to have a rug commercially cleaned than it is to try and restore a piece of wood flooring – so the two paired together means protection for your floor and a rug that you can whisk away to be professionally cleaned when required. Easy as!
6. Endless Decor Options
Hardwood flooring has an array of benefits, ranging from the smart and practical to the purely aesthetic. Nobody would argue though, that their ability to adapt to any interior design or household theme is arguably one of their most appealing aspects. Wood can seamlessly blend in with whatever additional accents you choose to add to your rooms, in particular the ability to layer on top of your flooring with a wide range of colours, shades and textures of rug.
The natural beauty of hardwood, which comes in a variety of shades, swirls, and grains, adds a timeless character and elegance to your home, while providing a beautiful blank canvas for endless décor options.
Drytron Carpet Cleaning
So, you’ve invested in beautiful, timeless wood flooring for your home, and a couple of eye-catching rugs for particular areas of your room. It’s looking and feeling just as you hoped it would, and your home has come together seamlessly. You’ve added flair, dimension, warmth and protection for your new flooring, and now all you want to know is how to maintain this brilliant new aesthetic.
Based in Melbourne with operations across Victoria, we are a mere phone-call away when you need some professional rug cleaning and maintenance. Drytron’s six-step rug cleaning process provides a rapid treatment that leaves them dry to walk on instantly – without that dreaded damp smell or feel. Your wood floors will remain good as new, while your carpets will continue to thrive with Drytron’s expert mobile rug cleaning process. Bright clean carpets will be an ongoing element of your household, keeping your overall aesthetic good-as-new for as long as you want it to.
Beautiful polished floors and impressive, elegant rugs – you’ve done the hard part by choosing your décor accents, so allow Drytron to deliver the ease and satisfaction with their unbeatable carpet cleaning services.
