Disclosure: I was kindly sent this lovely teal rug for the purposes of this review. You can buy it in various sizes, shapes and other colours — plus lots of other lovely rugs — from the Benuta website. Pop along and have a look www.benuta.co.uk All photos, thoughts and words — as ever — are entirely my own.
You know when you have something in your head — and nothing else will do? I had set my heart on a teal rug. I searched high and low for the right one.
Until Benuta got in touch with me!
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Introducing Benuta
Benuta have a fabulous selection of rugs, in styles to suit every home.
Modern, vintage, short pile or deep.
Or shaggy; round, square.
Plain or a myriad of colour — basically — whatever your taste, I bet you a tenner they’ve got something to suit.
Including the teal rug I’d been searching for!
In Praise Of Pattern
Now I love pattern.
On clothing, in our home. Very often, I’ll choose clashing patterns — sometimes in similar tones, sometimes in complementary colours — and I love to see a mix of designs sitting happily together.
But where I’ve always been quite confident in using patterns on transient items, such as fashion — or on cushions and throws — putting pattern on the floor has always filled me with a little trepidation.
Maybe it stems from the garish carpets I grew up with as a child? Very possibly.
Our family home was a paragon of the 1970s and I distinctly remember the swirly, patterned dining room carpet.
Clearly designed by someone who’d taken a little too much LSD ~ and enough to induce a migraine.
Who knows what the reason was? But pattern on the floor is something that I’ve always shied away from.
But when I saw the perfect teal rug — with a gorgeous trellis pattern — I knew that I had to have it.
I decided to put it in our conservatory — which we use as our adult sitting room — and true to form gravitated towards a simple design but (after a little word with myself) decided that as I was being given the opportunity to try something different I should buck the trend and pick something out of the ordinary.
And, given I’d been looking for the perfect teal rug, this was the perfect opportunity.
The Perfect Teal Rug
Historically, we’ve always had a simple cream rug in the conservatory so seeing such a strongly patterned teal rug in it’s place took a little bit of getting use to, to begin with. But do you know what?
I love it!
Almost to the point that I’m now thinking I’d like to introduce a little more pattern to the floors of our home.
The fact that Benuta’s company strapline is ‘fashion for floors‘ hasn’t escaped my notice either.
Fashion changes with the seasons and their fantastic — and incredibly affordable — range will make it easy to change the look of a room by adding pattern and colour to the floor; just as I always have done with my wardrobe.
But whilst fashion is currently enjoying a resurgence of the 1970s, that swirly dining room carpet will not be enjoying a revival anytime soon.
Some things are best left in the past.
Caro Davies is a former art-director turned writer and content-creator, and editor behind UK lifestyle blog The Listed Home. She writes about home-related topics, from interiors and DIY to food and craft. The Listed Home has been featured in various publications, including Ideal Home, Grazia, and Homes & Antiques magazines.
Aaah that’s SO funny!!! The cushions are donkeys years old but I still LOVE them. I keep looking for some replacements but can’t find anything I like quite as much. Really happy with the new rug — so nice to have a change :)
Great choice – goes perfectly. Was just looking at our worn living room rug this morning thinking we could with an update. Nb. Your pics have also made me really fancy a fig roll – SUCH a good biscuit choice! #HomeEtc xx
Thanks lovely :) We’d had the same, old cream one for AGES!! SO nice to have a change :)
100% thumbs up from me!! It looks incredible and I really think is the perfect piece for the space (your adult sitting room is just gorgeous by the way!)
Am in total agreement with you about all those patterns from the past, I think there’s a whole generation of us who will have nightmares of growing up with brown floral sofas clashing with pink floral carpets! X
Thanks pet :) So nice to have somewhere not strewn with plastic tat and toys!! The rest of the house often resembles the bottom of a toy box!! And yep. The 70s has left an indelible mark on my psyche. Some of those patterns are enough to give me night terrors! ;)
It looks fab Caro, I love the colour and the pattern! I would definitely be tempted to introduce more in the house. It can be a bit scary when you just see it on it’s own but I think it has settled very nicely in your conservatory, looks just like it belongs there! xx #HomeETC
Thanks so much darling :) I think you’re right — in isolation, pattern can look a bit daunting, but chuck it all in together and it can look AMAZING!! XX
Wow! I’m loving it and good for you for going for some fashion on your floor. Your conservatory is to die for and you have styled it beautifully – I’m green with envy right now.
Gorgeous post and pics
Sammy x #HomeEtc
Thanks so much pet! Yes! I think floors are overlooked — why shouldn’t they be fashionable too? Although I draw the line at the 1970s carpet ;)
Beautiful. Not the 70s carpet of course, I know exactly what you mean about those swirly patterns. My parents even had an orange and yellow boucle sofa. Yes, exactly. Thankfully we’re a lot more tasteful than that and there’s absolutely no way in years to come people will be saying that about this rug :) Thanks for hosting #homeetc x
Boucle? Oh gosh — that’s taking things to an entirely new level!!! LOL!! The awful thing is, I can actually picture it!!!! Hahaha!!! Yep — fingers crossed we’re not an unstylish era. I’d hate for my boys to be knocking my style in a few decades time!! :)
Yes. Boucle. I am scarred!!!! ;) x
Yep. I totally feel for you ;)
That rug is fabulous. We have moved a few things round in our house and now def need a new rug!
Thanks chick — I’m so pleased with it :) Funny how a new rug changes the look of the whole room isn’t it? xx
I love that pattern, it’s so neat and classic looking. I have never really favoured cool colours but I am loving blue so much at the moment and, that shade is beautiful. I know about the 70’s thing, I have always avoided swirls on the floor too, but this is lovely xx
Aaah I’m a massive fan of blue :) Funny isn’t it? I’m not keen on hot colours — reds and pinks — funny what floats our boats! xx
Oooo this is gorgeous, I absolutely love it and I also love love love your conservatory. The rug adds so much colour it totally works. Stunning and very good choice :) thanks for hosting #HomeEtc
Thanks so much pet. It was a bit of a shock to start with — so different from the old cream one!! Loving it now though — it’s really cheered the room up :)
Looking good Caro #HomeEtc
Thanks so much Helena :)