Top 5 tips to consider when shopping for the perfect rug

The floor is your canvas when it comes to choosing a rug that’s right for you, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

It’s rapidly becoming the time of year for hibernating beneath winter duvets, extra blankets, furry throws on laps, while prone on the sofa with the television remote control.

It’s also the time for investing in a good rug for comfort underfoot, but beware of being easily seduced by an on-trend look which may be out of fashion next year, such as the overlapping of several rugs which cite similar patterns or colourways to pull the look together. It might look novel now, and even eclectically stylish, but once the corners start to curl up, it’s potentially lethal to those wobbly of foot, like the very young and very old.