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Rugs and Carpets

Heals - Contemporary Furniture, Lighting, Accessories and Gifts

Heals offers contemporary styling and reasonable prices for every room in your house, from major furniture items such as beds and sofas right through to lighting, small accessories, bed linen, towels and toiletries. Click through to their clear website and pay a visit to the room of your choice or check out their garden furniture and accessories and storage solutions. They also have a wedding list service, interior design, kitchen planning and much more.

Axminster Carpets

Although you have to actually order through a stockist this is such a clever website in terms of choosing your new carpet I've included it here. You can search their portfolio by colour, texture, range and style. Click on style, for example then from floral, classic, plain etc. Once you’ve selected your chosen pattern you can send it through their home decorator facility where you choose a type of room and then change the colour of the walls and main furnishings and get a good idea of how it would look (sorry if this sounds complicated, it definitely isn’t and it’s extremely clever).

Funky Rugs

Moving away for a moment from traditional pattern rugs take a look at these modern designs, perfect for contemporary interiors. You can choose from their Ultra Funky (and non returnable) rugs, modern wool rugs, shaggy rugs, leather rugs, skins and hides and loads more. One of the strongest parts of this collection must surely be the natural rugs, where you can choose from sisal, coir, bamboo and seagrass with different edgings for simple and striking interiors. They'll deliver Worldwide and delivery to the UK is free.

Hill Co

This is quite a different sort of website, offering the very highest quality of rugs available at some stratospheric prices, up into the thousands of pounds, although of course not all of them are as much. These rugs are all replicas of old rugs, made by skilled craftsmen on looms owned and overseen by the retailers, who are obviously experts. Take a look at their question and answer section to find out more about the rugs on offer and you'll be able to see the difference, when browsing through the site, between these and other much cheaper versions.

John Lewis rugs and home accessories

The trouble is it's all to easy to slip onto this site and see such a wide choice you don't want to bother to go and visit other websites. Their offer is huge and growing all the time and double that with the value for money you find here, and it's difficult to get away. In their Home Accessories department you'll find rugs from cowhide to flokati, to Berber and Bokhara, plus the softest fake fur and fleece throws, cushions plus mirrors, prints and decorative vases.

Queenshill

This is a family run business offering a lovely selection of fabrics, wallpapers, gifts and home accessories from brands such as Mulberry, GP and J Baker, Harlequin and Fired Earth. The selection of mouthwatering gift ideas includes Mulberry candles, pot pourrie, cushions and throws and James Brindley's range of faux fur (think leopard, llama, bear and cheetah) throws, cushions and hot water bottle covers. Resist if you can. You can request free samples of fabrics to help you finalise your choice and then order using their online system. They ship Worldwide

Rugs Direct

A rug can add so much atmosphere to a room as I’m sure you’ll agree and if you haven’t inherited a few from your great grandmother you can choose from the very good selection on this website, from traditional patterned rugs (think Chinese or Turkish in deep dark rich colours) to extremely modern designs, such as animal prints and abstracts. Thank goodness, too, that this is a site that actually gives you immediate information on ordering and delivery - why don't they all do that? You’ll also be able to buy stair rods and rug underlay here.

The Lounge About Company

No ordinary rug company this, but one where you'll find cowhide rugs in a variety of colours plus zebra and tiger cowhide. Once you've chosen a design you can ask them to send you pictures of a selection of hides so that you can choose the exact one you want - extremely important as of course they're all different. You can also buy cowhide cushions backed in suede and gorgeous leather beanbags here as well.

The Rug Company

The Wonderland Rug Company, based in the North East of England, have been importing and retailing a comprehensive range of rugs for nearly twenty years. There are Indian Jalna and plain rugs, a Bokhara collection from Pakistan and beautiful soft coloured Chinese rugs, plus classic rugs from Turkey and Afghanistan and a small selection of children’s rugs. There’s also lots of information on buying a rug, how to choose and what to look for. Delivery is Worldwide and they will normally dispatch to you within 48 hours