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.
I love it!! I always love how other people choices open my eyes, I’m always to scared to go for anything drastic but I love the whole room, the mixing colours & patterns. I’m definitely going to be a bit braver at mixing patterns x #HomeEtc
Thanks so much Toni :) I don’t think you can do wrong, mixing patterns on accessories. I’ve seen people do it with wallpaper and carpet and sometimes I think it looks amazing, other times it looks so hectic, it would give me a headache!! :) Just start small and you’ll soon get a feel for what works xx
I love it! Well done for being brave and going for the blue! It matches your other accessories so well without being too ‘matchy matchy’ ;-) I love it when I see people mixing colours and patterns in their homes. I always feel so nervous about doing that but it (almost!) always pays off! Your conservatory looks fantastic xx #HomeEtc
Aah thanks Sue :) I’ve never been a fan of things matching totally — I really like an eclectic mix. That goes for furniture too; I’ve always mixed new with old. The two white sofas were £9.99 off Ebay — for the pair!! ;)
The room looks lovely and the colour combo is fab! For someone who is painting everything white in my house, I definitely need to add some colour! #HomeEtc
Aaah I went though the white phase in one of our previous houses :) I’m all about colour these days — PLUS it doesn’t show the dirt as much ;) xx
Great choice! I love the bold colour #HomeEtc
Thanks so much Lizzie! I’m so pleased with it! :)
I’ve always been shy of pattern too but I love your colour scheme and that rug and cushion are lovely! #HomeEtc
Aah thanks Michelle. It’s an odd one isn’t it? Some folk love pattern, others not so much! It’s a bit like Marmite ;)
Love love LOVE! Goes so well in the conservatory and looks just gorgeous with the colour scheme x
Thanks so much darling! Really, really pleased with it :) xx
I love the rug, it’s gorgeous, what a beautiful colour. I’m similar to you in that I always tend to stick to plain colours for flooring (we also had awful carpets growing up) but the pattern you’ve chosen looks great. Sadly, our conservatory is the playroom although I’m now wishing to reclaim it as a more grown up room. xx
Thanks lovely :) Our snug — which is our TV room — is now the playroom. If we were clever, we’d swap them round as you have to walk through the snug to get to the conservatory and it always looks such a mess! It would *almost* be better to be able to shut the door on the toys and not look at them. I love the light in the conservatory though — I don’t want to give it up ;)
Oh my god, I LOVE it! The colour goes so well with your cushions, it’s so bright and cheerful, such a good choice. I love clashing patterns too, you’ve definitely got an eye for it, as it can go wrong sometimes (ha ha, thinking of the 80s ;-P)
Sabruna xx #Homeetc
Thanks so much pet! I’m pretty pleased with it :) Clashing patterns are the way forward — I love the way they don’t show the dirt as much!! ;)
I love it – you definitely made the right choice going for the blue. I am very envious of your conservatory (and lovely cat) – gorgeous!
Thanks so much lovely :) I’m happy with the blue — it took a little bit of getting used to, as it’s a lot brighter than it’s predecessor. Love it now though
PS — I feel VERY grown up having a conservatory ;)
Oh Caro I just love that rug it is so stylish, I looked at that several times myself. I love the choice at Benuta it is almost impossible to choose and I totally agree with you although I went for a plain rug in the end to match the room there were dozens and dozens of pattens I just loved x
Thanks chickie! It’s SO hard to choose isn’t it? They really have got a fabulous — and affordable range. I’ll definitely be keeping them in my address book for future purchases :) xx