shopping for a rug
Other than a bathroom mat or something to catch drips at the kitchen sink, I haven’t really shopped for rugs until recently. I’ve never had large expanses of hard flooring until we moved to our current home. My decorating budget was always non-existent or super-tight, so the rugs I had were freebies from family, carpet remnants left in our basement from the previous owner or great bargains (like the $8 yard sale rug in our guest room, the $75 bamboo mat in the dining room and the 70% off clearance rug from Target.) When Flea Market Style contacted me about photographing my office, they wanted to add some punch to the space in a few ways, including a rug. Stacey, one of their creative editors, sent me some links to various rug companies and asked me to pick out something I liked. I immediately fell in love with Dash
