Seasonal Styling with Rugs: How to Refresh Your Home Year-Round

Your home is a haven, and the areas you spend your time in - your living room, kitchen, and bedroom - make this haven's heart. These intimate spaces provide respite for weary bodies after a long day of work and a site for relaxing and unwinding on long weekend afternoons. With such versatility in these humble spaces, we believe it would be an oversight not to invest in furnishing that grows with your life. As the burst of fledgling leaves from the spring season deepen into a mature green, before slowly fading to orange and brown leaves, your interiors shouldn’t stay static, missing out on the dynamic interplay of the elements outdoors.  

One approach to home decor suggests a one-shot approach, where you find the perfect carpet for your home and stick with it throughout the year. This is functional and practical, but in our opinion, not as fun as refreshing your decor as the year progresses. As the seasons change, so do our needs - dust, wind, cold, moisture - all of these factors influence how different fibres and textures best fit a room. In the heat and dust of the summer, handwoven jute and cotton carpets provide the perfect cool feel underfoot, while adding a rustic appeal. They also work well to repel insects and manage dust, crucial concerns during the summer months. In the winter, however, wool and silk blended carpets are preferable for a warm, fluffy sensation underfoot, allowing you to enjoy your space despite the shocking cold of stone-tiled flooring. 

The days are longer during the summer months, and shorter during the winter months, meaning that you get lighter, airy sunlight filtering through the windows during summer, but brighter, and more intense bursts of natural light at specific hours during winter. As the amount of natural light that your spaces get changes through the year, so will the character of your carpet in your interiors. We recommend finding a balance between the fibres you choose for your seasonal carpet refresh and experimenting with the colour palettes and the amount of natural light they are likely to receive. For instance, during the summer months, Jute carpets offer versatility in design alongside comfort. For a touch of opulence, opt for our Suryawansh Hand-Knotted Jute Rug, where delicate knots of jute and cotton create an understated sense of luxury, in a fibre well-suited for comfort in extreme heat. With a washed ochre canvas, the sunlight will dance off the surface of the cotton-white accents of this carpet, drawing attention to the subtle design, while also creating a sense of airiness in the room. For the winter months, turn to woollen carpets, such as our Mollani Hand-Tufted Woollen Rug, where richer, deeper, hues of blue and pastel rose gold complement the extravagance of a cosy feel underfoot. The regality of this carpet will add colour to the room in darker hours and the colours will dance when rich bursts of sunlight bathe its surface. 

If we haven't convinced you yet about the benefits of changing your carpets every few months, you could consider using a reversible rug. From our collection of Killims, the Maharani Recycled Cotton Reversible Killim is the perfect fit for this need. With a light cotton canvas, this rug is suitably comfortable for summer months and will also provide respite from the cold winter floors. With a bright orange design on one side and a black canvas on the other, this carpet offers two distinct colour schemes while keeping the pattern consistent with symmetrical floral motifs. With a reversible carpet, you can settle on a fabric that will work with all the changes the seasons bring, while giving yourself the option of changing the ambience in your space when you feel like it. 

Although Obeetee hosts a large collection of home furnishings and furniture, we are carpet makers at heart. We believe that the humble floor furnishing has the power to completely transform a room. The floor, the largest surface area of your space, evolves into a canvas for colour schemes, motifs, and patterns that sing in harmony with the rest of your decor - all with the addition of a carpet. If you would like to learn more about our collections, visit us online at obeetee.in, or in-store at any of our flagship locations pan-India.