Extreme Makeover Without Going to Extremes

Instantly transform a room from the ground up. Shown here, Nourison’s Nourmak area rug creates a traditional feel and the same room with a more contemporary rug from the company’s Elements collection.

Think an “extreme makeover” project has to include a sledgehammer and general contractor? Well, interior design does not always have to include knocking down walls or expensive construction.

One of the easiest ways to change an interior is to start with new area rugs, which go far beyond merely providing covering for a floor. They can serve as the impetus for a new color palette and decorating scheme, changing the entire look and feel of a room without breaking the bank. From traditional Persians to transitional styles, to contemporary works of art, there are more styles to choose from at every price point than ever before.

“Today’s designs have a level of sophistication that just wasn’t available in the past,” says Joyce Lowe, a veteran industry design expert, and VP Area Rug Sales for Nourison, the world’s largest manufacturer of handmade area rugs. “Just about any design type is now available in nearly every construction, with textures, carvings, and fiber mixtures that create striking highlights and pattern details.”

Are you a traditionalist? Choose an heirloom quality hand-made rug from the Nourmak collection, hand made of rich New Zealand wool, or Nourison 2000, highlighted with pure silk-accented designs. Want a living room that’s sleek and modern? A designer rug from Calvin Klein home, rich in texture, color and style, can provide the starting point.

Color is of course, a huge component of a room’s décor and should be chosen with care. “A basic rule of thumb in interior design is to select one neutral tone and two brighter accent colors that combine in a pleasing way,” adds Lowe. Transitional and contemporary rugs from Nourison make choosing accent colors easy because world-class design teams have already selected colors that work well together. Simply pull and match colors from the field of design details.

“Your choice of accessories should complement the décor,” says Lowe. Wall colors, window treatments and accessories are important to a good redesign, none of which need be expensive to change. Toss out old curtains, candles and other accessories from your old room and bring in high fashion pillows, and other accents in complementary colors and styles. You’ll be surprised at how dramatic the change will be.

Hemphill’s Rugs & Carpets has a wide variety of traditional, contemporary and transitional area rugs. Futhermore, the showroom offers a wide range of price ranges with the ultimate in flexibility in terms of size, construction and design. With over 70 manufacturers represented, Hemphill’s Rugs & Carpets surely can assist you with finding the perfect area rugs for your home. Brands include Karastan, Nourison, Masland, Company C, Obeetee, Feizy Rugs, InnerAsia’s Gangchen’s Carpet of Tibet, Merida Merida, Fibreworks, Fabrica, Stanton, Couristan, Delos, Rugs International, Lamontage and more.

Wool Carpet Sale – Over 20 Mills & All Products

SALE – Plan ahead for this one. It is going to be great! Hemphill’s Rugs & Carpets status as one of about 30 Wools of New Zealand Premier Partner dealers in the USA allows for the following: 10% off Couristan, Concepts International, Eclipse, Fabrica, Godfrey Hirst, Hagaman, J. Mish, Karastan Broadloom, Karastan Rugs, Nourison Broadloom, Nourison Rugs, Prestige, Radici, Stanton, Unique, and Woolshire.

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Stair Rods Add a Touch of Elegance

Nourison Runner with Stair Rods

Stair rods are available at Hemphill’s Rugs & Carpets. Our showroom offers a variety of styles and finishes. Shown here is our most popular collection which offers quality at a great price. This collection offers a choice of four finials shown below:

Ball

Pineapple

Urn

Pyramid

Note that the bracket shown with the Urn has the optional decorative markings. All bracket / finial combinations are available either plain or with the decorative etching.

Shown below are the variety of finishes that are available:

Wrought Iron

Polished Brass

Brushed Brass

Antique Pewter

Chrome

Antique Brass

Gray is the New Black

Gray is becoming a factor as a color option for interior design. Gray is a functional color that allows for a clean contemporary look. Or gray can be used as a “neutral” base color for floor covering with color added for window coverings, upholstery, paint and/or accessories.

Hemphill’s Rugs & Carpets offers some great selections in gray tones in both nylon and wool carpeting. The showroom also offers leather floors, wood, sisal and designer vinyl options in gray. Currently, Hemphill’s has gray wool carpet offerings from Karastan, Nourison, Woolshire, Bellbridge, Masland, Fabrica and Prestige. Moda, Fabrica and Masland have some great looking Stainmaster nylon carpets in the gray family.

Nourison Rugs Offer Wide Range of Choices

Nourison Element

If you are thinking of redecorating your home, one of the most important things that you should consider in the new design is a rug. You might think that a new rug would be one of the last items you buy, more of a dressing, a finishing touch, than a major design feature but a good rug can define a room. There is nothing that can spoil the style of a newly decorated room more than an old rug that refuses to fit with the new look you have created.

When you are looking for a top quality rug, the first place you should look is Nourison. If you’ve never heard of Nourison rugs, you will be pleasantly surprised by what you find. Visit Hemphill’s Rugs & Carpets you will be literally bowled over by the amazing range of stylish, hand crafted rugs available there. A Nourison rug is simply the most beautifully designed rug you can buy and the company has earned its place as one of the worlds leading rug manufacturers.

What’s more, Nourison manufacture all of their rugs in a traditional manner, either by hand or by good old-fashioned loom weaving. This provides for a level of quality that you just don’t get with other rug manufacturers. It’s a rare delight to find so many contemporary designs being produced in such a time-honored fashion. It’s even more astounding to find beautiful classic designs manufactured the way that they would have been hundreds of years ago. And these manufacturing techniques (it deserves to be called a craft really) have been applied to rugs of all shapes and sizes, from area rugs to scatter rugs. One of their programs offers various rug patterns in 50 different STANDARD SIZES. Also, Nourison offers custom size options in their hand tufted and machine woven area rugs. We recently installed a custom 5′ wide runner in a designer’s own home.

Classic
If it is a traditional or classical style rug you are looking for, then look no further. Nourison have an extensive range of classical designs and classical European designs, including a stunning Versailles Palace collection, and the infamous Nourison 2000 rugs collection. They are also now featuring a country range, which comprises of the kind of rugs you might mind in a traditional American farmhouse and also feature an extensive Nourison oriental rugs line.

Contemporary
If the contemporary or modern is more to your taste then you won’t be disappointed either. Nourison have a rug to suit any modern room, including their popular tones and textures ranges. In fact, Nourisan have rugs in styles ranging right from colonial to the very latest in fashion (including designs by Calvin Klein Home and Liz Claiborne).

Nourison is just one of the rug lines offered by Hemphill’s Rugs & Carpets. Other lines offered include Karastan, Company C, InnerAsia Gangchen Carpets of Tibet, Feizy, Obeetee, Delos, Masland, Capel, Tamarian, LR Resources, Fabrica, Stanton, Safavieh, Rugs International, Concepts International, Merida Meridian & Jaipur.

Wool Carpet Fibers Assist With BP Gulf Oil Spill

The Gulf oil spill, which was triggered by the explosion of the Deepwater oilrig on April 20, has become the biggest environmental disaster ever experienced in the U.S. The devastation has impacted lives, jobs, marine life, wildlife, tourism and the health, financial and emotional wellbeing of many. At this point, the reach of the catastrophe is uncertain, but some leading scientists believe the damaging effects will be felt all the way to Europe and the Arctic. Those of us living outside of the Gulf keep reading the headlines and listening to the news with a feeling of helplessness. Although no news about the oil spill is good, the wool industry is finding ways to lend a hand and help in the clean efforts.

You may have heard that many salons are donating cut hair to help fill booms. Well…another sought after filler for booms is wool. Wool, which has been shown to soak up 40 times its weight in oil, traps the contaminant instead of absorbing it. This means the oil can be removed from the wool and recycled and the wool can be reused several times before its efficiency decreases.
To aid in the oil-spill cleanup, volunteers throughout the Gulf have been making miles and miles of booms. These booms are typically filled with polypropylene, which doesn’t work near as well as hair and wool. To help provide better filler, Wools of New Zealand contacted its U.S. manufacturer partners who answered the call to donate wool waste for use in the clean-up efforts. The wool waste material is shipped to Matter of Trust, an organization that warehouses the fiber and makes it into booms. The wool is joined by thousands of pounds of hair, fleece and feathers that will be turned into booms and used for shoreline protection and oil spill clean up.

Wool has been called on before for this same purpose. As reported by BBC News, New Zealand sent wool booms to the Persian Gulf during the first Iraq war in 1991. The wool booms successfully helped clean up the million tons of oil released by retreating Iraqi soldiers.

It’s not surprising that wool can be of benefit. It is natural, biodegradable, hydrophobic, buoyant and has large retaining capacity. Wool truly is an incredible fiber. Even though it has been around for thousands of years, it continues to surprise us with its ability to make the world around us a better place.

Hemphill’s Rugs & Carpets is proud to be associated with the Wools of New Zealand as a Premier Partner. Many of our wool carpet vendors have partnered with our showroom and the Wools of New Zealand in an effort to make the world a “greener” place. Some of our key wool carpet manufactures include Karastan, Fabrica, Masland, Nourison, Stanton, J. Mish, Robertex, Hagaman, Couristan, Bellbridge, Concepts International, Prestige Mills, Carousel, Woolshire, Unique Carpets and more.

As you can see from the impressive list above, Hemphill’s Rugs & Carpets offers a huge selection of natural fiber products including wool, sisal, abaca, seagrass, mountain grass and jute.

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