Buying a custom rug is a very personal decision, it enables you to express your taste and style and may be the perfect opportunity to have that one furniture piece that ties together a room, or multiple rooms. However, when committing to something as significant as a bespoke piece of furniture it is important to get it right.

There are many considerations that needs to be taken into account when designing, or commissioning, your personal bespoke rug.

Firstly you should think about if you have something similar already on the market. Existing designs are a safe way of obtaining a rug you know will work. I someone on the market is making a rug design the probabilities are that it works. logo mats Which begs the question if you need a custom rug to begin with. If there is a rug out there in the proper size and colours then chances are to be less expensive than having a rug made bespoke.

The cost increase for custom rugs isn’t basically the design process however the economies of scale involved with purchasing dyes, drafting up the design onto a computer, then onto a canvas for hand-tufting, or perhaps a rug ‘cartoon’ for hand-knotted rugs, along with small-scale shipping costs being substantially greater than large batch production. That being said, existing rugs will be the most common way to obtain inspiration for custom rugs – many custom rugs take an existing design and modify it slightly, or adapt the colours while keeping the pattern exactly the same, or simply alter the size to match. Needless to say some custom rugs can be more cost-effective than designer rugs giving a similar quality at a lower price-tag, the only difference being having less a designer sticker underneath.

The next pitfall in order to avoid when commissioning a custom rug is getting your design wrong at the start, changing elements of your rug once the manufacturing process has begun is probably not possible and if it is it could be costly. Better to take longer at the look stage than realise you earn a mistake later on.

Choosing design and colours could be a careful balance. An ultra-modern and patterned rug may be perfect for at this time but will it look right if you change your decor and if it does not, are you OK with that? Conversely, having a custom rug designed to have it bland may defeat the reason, so putting some thought right into a design that you’ll love for years to come helps to ensure it is a high value purchase. However, custom rugs do not have to cost the earth and will often cost a lower amount than you would think, obtaining a quote and sending off some ideas of designs costs nothing. Find out costs and timeframes and take your choice from there.