GETTING RUGS RIGHT
PEOPLE’S preference for hard floors has really grown in the last 30 years to a much more European sentiment. I can’t remember the last time we put a fitted carpet in a sitting room, for example, and you would almost never now have a carpet in the bathroom. But we still want our spaces to feel cosy – especially at this time of year.
■ Rugs, therefore, are completely critical to the cosiness and warmth of a room. Because they need to be as large as they can be, they are often the most expensive thing to go into that
