Small Ways | A Wool Area Rug
Simple. Reachable. Doable. Small ways. They pack enough punch to change your world, or your day. Or maybe, simply and gloriously, they’ll change your moment. Small Ways is a series about small objects, small gestures, small touches. Small ways for living well.
In the quiet bedroom nestled under a seven foot, beaded plank ceiling at the back of the house, there’s a queen bed on one wall, with nightstands carved out of flanking floor-to-ceiling cabinetry. Opposite that is a writing desk perfectly tucked into a nook between two wardrobes.
And there, on the floor at the foot of the bed, is a wool area rug. It’s simple in design, a quiet pattern of pile looped and cut, woven in wool the color of wheat. It’s a foundational piece, just as important as the bed, the nightstands, the reading lights, the desk. Laid out on the floor like that, it pulls the room together, swallows the echoes, fills the empty space.
Best of all, it gives our feet a warm place to land.
You may remember that I’ve written words about area rugs in general before, but I haven’t told you about this one in particular, an oversight I best correct, because this is about home and simplicity and living well, and this rug is one of those things that, through the repetition of seasons and the turning of years, I keep coming back to.
You know about this - when you find a good thing, why look for something else? In the middle of the celebrations and complications of life and living, it’s settling to know that I have an assortment of household basics, tried-and-true. This is one of them. And I’m not too shy to say that, over the past nine years, when one has worn out its life, I’ve simply replaced it with another, just the same.
It’s the Westport area rug in the color sand, by Nourisan. Hand-tufted, 100% wool, yet it doesn’t cost what you might expect, all the reasons for it being here, always in our home. For Nellie naps on lazy afternoons, for my yoga mat and morning sessions, for warmth underfoot anytime we’re passing through.
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