Natural Carpet for Natural Home Design

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There are many varieties of natural and recycled carpet options and throw rugs available for those who are interested in environmentally friendly home decor. Find out more in this free online natural home decorating video guide.

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Natural Carpet for Natural Home Design
Now we’re gonna cover some of your natural carpet options. My favorite and the all time most expensive is wool. But it’s absolutely beautiful. It will last longer than any other carpet you can purchase so you’re gonna get your money’s worth, it’s just the initial output of money. But it comes in a beautiful array of colors, it’s soft, it’s insulating for your floor, it’s just great, it feels great and it looks great. This is just a few samples to show you but there’s a lot of different patterns you can get in the berber and the wool and stuff and you can get a shag wool, you’ve just got to kind of search it out.

Cecils are real good options, if you have little children though they’re probably not the best because they’re not soft and comfy like the wool. But it’s beautiful, it’s easy to take care of, it’s very durable, and it comes in a different, you know, a lot of array of colors here again.

Then there’s a kind of interesting option, it’s not really my favorite but it’s something that’s on the market and people are always kind of intrigued by it. It’s a little intriguing to most people. It looks like regular carpet but it’s made out of soda pop bottle, the plastic soda pop bottles that you drink your soda out of. It comes in a number of different colors. Shockingly you can get all these colors in this carpet. And you’re not limited to again just natural earth tones. Then you have lots of other options like these large cotton throw rugs. You can get jut, quar, rayon, hemp, raime, I mean there’s a number of different options you can use for your floors that are natural that are not going to outgas so I would encourage you to check those out and look for those.

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Expert: Shelley Jones is a professional environmental decorator and lives in her own straw bale home. Read More