The rug we chose is ....

#1

At the store we really liked #2 but once we got it home it just didn't really look that great. If I can offer any advice it is to take a rug home and see how it looks on your floor.

We got #1 and #2 at one store and #3 and #4 at another store. I really liked #4 and would like to have bought that one too but we just couldn't afford both rugs. They don't give them Persian rugs away for free ya know!

Thank you all for voting and maybe I will try another poll sometime again.

Floor Rugs

Now that  we completed the condo our focus can shift back to our house. "A" wanted to reward herself since she has finished paying off her student loans, which is no small feat. We want to have three nice area rugs, one for our dining room and two for our living room. Each rug will need to be approximately 8'x10'. One thing we really don't want is a cheap machine made rug. So we went decided that it would definitely be a hand made rug, but which kind?

We had a really nice rug that we purchased from a local furniture store that was made in India, hand tufted I believe. The problem with many Indian rugs are that they usually put some kind of glue on the back that will keep it held together after the tufting. This glue eventually breaks down and starts to really stink and no amount of cleaning will fix it. That is what happened to our rug, so we decided to go with a hand knotted rug.

Quite a few countries make these rugs (Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, etc...). I happen to have a few Pakistani rugs that I bought when I lived there but they are too small for our needs in these three areas. We went to the Miramar area and brought home four rugs that we thought would work. "A" doesn't like the typical Persian rugs that have the flowery or flowing type patterns, she is more drawn to the tribal type rugs. So we looked at three rugs from the Heriz area of Iran and one from Afghanistan.

Below are the rugs that tried numbered from 1 to 4, can you guess which one we chose? Please vote to the right of this post. Answer will be given after the poll closes.

#1 Heriz, Persian

#2 Afghanistan

#3 Heriz, Persian

#4 Heriz, Persian

Renovations part 5: completed and condo rented

We finished with the final preparations for the condo on September 1st and it was listed on the 5th. I got word today that it has now been rented. It was actually a little faster than I expected so we are happy. In the end we rented it for $1,345 with a one year lease.

It was a long haul and took much longer than I expected but I am glad we did it. If we ever buy another rental property I think we will try to get a move in ready place. Then again maybe not :)

Below are the before and after photos.