Rugs are no doubt a very trendy item right now and many people to use them to decorate their homes with, but what is also great about rugs is that they serve as so many different things besides just being a decorative art piece in the home.

There are a lot of new styles and trends for rugs in 2012. You will find that both the traditional area rugs as well as your contemporary rugs are going to be a very trendy style this year.

As the Irish Government plays hard ball with the IMF over interest rates on their £77 Billion bailout, rates which they claim are simply too high for the country to pay back, the government continues to spend lavish amounts of money on what can only be described as high end luxury items.

Don’t over look children’s rugs as educational tools. We all know how important visual images are to a child’s development. We use wall charts and pictures but more often than not we overlook kids play mats. We know that children learn best with the idea of repetition and visual representation. That’s why in bedrooms, on fridges and in all classrooms you will find displays of some form.

The floor can be a blank canvas for reinforcing learning.

The Red Carpet season is well and truly in full swing!
Now that the Cannes Festival 2011 is a wrap we know that this year as usual fashionistas brought glamour to the Red Carpet! Gwen Stefani rocked in her glitzy Black jumpsuit and WOW did you see Uma Thurman- the gown -the colour- all I can say … Amazing!!!

September 29th 2010 saw the introduction of a ban on “carpets, rugs and other textile floor coverings and carpets used as wall hangings” that are of Iranian origin. The ban is a part of a group of sanctions on Iranian goods imposed by the U.S. government against Iran and its nuclear programme. President Obama signed the legislation on the 1st July 2010 reversing a move made in the late Clinton administration which seen the easing of restrictions on Iranian goods.

Yes it’s true... Grant confessed to his darker side in a recent interview with OK! magazine. The star of Four Weddings and a Funeral admitted that he had smuggled rugs from Turkey and got caught.

It has been revealed that border guards in Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport in Montreal discovered nearly $4million worth of Heroin on the 30th July this year. The discovery was made while the Canada Borders Services Agency (CBSA) was carrying out a routine inspection of a rug shipment from Pakistan. Nearly 11 kilograms of heroin was found hidden within the hand-knotted wool fibres.

Following in the footsteps of past US Presidents, Obama has been doing some home decor. The Michigan based Scott Group were commissioned to design and create several rugs for the White House including a huge 23foot by 30foot handmade rug. The rug is made from 100% wool and features the presidential seal in blue, cream and wheat – according to the administration “colours in keeping with the neutral colour scheme favoured by Obama for the Oval office”.

American rug retailers are stocking up on Persian rugs in preparation for the US sanctions against Iran which come into effect on the 29th September 2010. As part of US legislation – a ban will be put in place on all Iranian imports including Persian rugs which will no longer be allowed into the USA.