Kitchen rugs have always been a common piece of furniture around the kitchen. Whether the kitchen floor was wooden or tiled, rugs have always been a very useful tool in decorating bear floors and in preventing accidents.
ndeed, kitchen rugs serve both a functional and aesthetic purpose. However it may not always be very easy choosing kitchen rugs since these two major factors should be taken into consideration.
When choosing a kitchen rug, it is important to make sure that the rugs matches or contrasts pleasantly with the rest of your kitchen décor. Just because it is the kitchen does not mean that you are confined to choosing brightly coloured or highly patterned rugs!
Your option should be rugs that either go with the kitchen curtains, both in colour and style, or rugs that match the appliances in the kitchen such as the cabinets, kitchen island, fridge and/or stove.
Also it is important to bear in mind the overall theme and general setting of the kitchen. For instance if the kitchen has more of a homely, traditional southern style to it with bright colours, then a highly artistic rug with sober colour isn't what you should be looking for.
And in the same wise, if your kitchen happens to be very modern or even futuristic looking with highly polished chrome fixtures, mahogany or granite countertops then a big loop yellow rug is the last thing you'd want to grace you space.
This is irrespective of how much you may think it would make the kitchen more homely. The rug really should compliment your kitchen's existing interior décor.
Placement of the rug is also important, since many interior decorators encourage, and rightly so, the idea that wrong placement of a piece of furniture or furnishing in any space can throw the whole room off orbit.
This is also known as the ancient Chinese art form of placement called Feng Shui. For instance, it is better to use a small runner around the base of a kitchen island that is used as a dining area that it may be to 'carpet' all the floor space around the island with rugs which will make the entire kitchen look cluttered.
As far as the functional aspect of kitchen rugs are concerned, many people tend to use rugs or mats by their kitchen sink, refrigerator and entrance/exit to or from the kitchen area.
Rugs in these areas serve to absorb water, especially water or liquid that made drink from the kitchen sink or using the fridge, and the benefit of having rugs here is to reduce kitchen accident since kitchen floors, especially titled and highly polished wooden floors get very slippery when wet.
So when choosing a kitchen rug for these areas, the rug itself should be made of an absorbent material on the top and a suction material on the bottom that will prevent the rug from moving wet it gets wet.
Kitchen rugs that are used in entry ways to or exits from the kitchen should also be made of a very sturdy suction material on the bottom but a sort of wooly material on top to trap dirt and dust so that particles won't be floating around the kitchen floor every time someone enters or leaves the kitchen.
