Dear People with Kitchens Rugs:
Who are you? What do you do? Do you have animals? Do you actually cook? Are you just insanely neat cooks who never spill anything on the floor? Do you wash your rug? Does it fit inside your washing machine? Please explain the logistics of this! Let me say that I don’t mean this post in a mean way. Truthfully I want to be you, so please help me. I would love a sweet little rug in our kitchen to liven up the area. I just have a feeling that with our habits the rug would go from sweet to nasty after the course of one meal.
I’ve read that natural fiber rugs work well in the kitchen, but I can’t help myself from thinking that various drippings would inevitably stain it and cause it to smell. Does anyone want to give us any advice? Has anyone tried this and had a bad experience? Please fill us in.
We have a cheap rag rug from IKEA in the kitchen. It can be thrown in the wash quite easily, but I don’t understand people who have big rugs in the kitchen. They must be much neater than I am.
Maybe that could work for us. I love the look but we owned a living room rug once and that ended terribly. I can’t imagine a kitchen rug having a better fate.
I was nuts and bought a white bath mat rug. What was I thinking?? I have to wash it every week! What about carpet squares? Flor makes high traffic area ones and when one is dirty, you could pick it up, clean it and put it back!
Um, so I don’t think YHL are made of real people. Their house is always immaculate (like magazine perfect immaculate) and John is always up for design ideas that no straight man would ever agree to. They both seem extremely nice, but I wonder how they live in this alternate universe that allows them to have things (like the kitchen rug) that aren’t practical for the average person. I’m so jealous!
That carpet square idea is pretty clever!
Danielle the carpet squares are a great idea! I’ve been wanting a white bathmat for a really long time now–I can see it being a bad idea but in the store it looks so elegant! (This was actually part of the the plan for the bathroom makeover. Maybe I’ll have to rethink that…
Meg- I’m with you. I really wish I was as crazily organized and put together as the YHL people are, but honestly, we rarely tidy on weekdays, we have dogs that do disgusting things, and we spill *a lot* on the floor. Carpet squares may be the way to go.
I can barely deal with out little rug in front of our sink; it can get so dirrrty! I don’t think I could ever bring an oversize rug in my kitchen…Chris would probably try to surf slide on it and I really don’t want to visit an ER anytime soon.
Oh gosh! I can only imagine. Chris sounds like a lot of fun Dolores!