5 mistakes to avoid when choosing your cowhide rug

Choosing a cowhide to decorate your home requires special attention. A cowhide is there to make your house or apartment more welcoming and elegant. You might as well choose it well, or you risk creating the opposite effect.

Size, color, light… Several elements must be taken into account to find the ideal cowhide. The one that perfectly matches your interior and your style of decoration . To guide you, here are the 5 mistakes to avoid when looking for the perfect cowhide.

Mistake #1: Choosing the wrong color for your cowhide rug

Color is a crucial choice. We can even speak of a real decisive choice. Why? The color of a carpet plays a primordial role on the final effect.

First of all, choosing the color of your cowhide rug depends on your tastes. Listen to them! However, we advise you to follow a few simple decorating principles to prevent the rug from finding its place among the rest of your decoration.

Tip #1: Create contrast with the floor using cowhide rugs

Contrast! If you only remember one rule, this is probably it. A rug should stand out. To make the rug stand out from the floor and attract attention, it is important to create a color difference between the floor and the rug . The stronger the contrast, the more the rug will be noticed. For example, a red-dyed cowhide rug will stand out perfectly on a white or light floor.

Tip #2: Respect cool tones and warm tones

You want to give an atmosphere to your interior. It is important that your carpet respects this atmosphere. We often talk about cold tones and warm tones. The color of your carpet must respect the tone (cold or warm) that you bring through the materials, furniture and decorative objects. If you put a zebra-print cowhide on black tiles, it is the best way to create a sober and elegant atmosphere with cold tones.

Tip #3: Create redundancy in colors with other objects in the house

A cowhide rug should harmonize with your interior. To do this, there is nothing like making the colors rhyme. This advice applies even more to patterned rugs where several colors are applied. If you choose a timeless Norman cowhide rug in your living room, place one or two Norman cowhide cushions on your sofa or a lamp with a lampshade in brown tones.

Mistake #2: Choosing a cowhide or sheepskin rug that is too small or too large

A cowhide (or sheepskin) rug can dress up a living room, a dining room, a hall, a bedroom, an office or even a relaxation area. It is there to delimit a space . Hence the importance of it being the right size. Neither too small nor too big.

A cowhide rug that is too small will seem lost in the space. On the contrary, a rug that is too large will impose itself. To choose the right size for your rug, it is important that your cowhide rug is larger than the furniture (sofa, armchairs, table, etc.). In some cases, such as in a living room, you can choose rugs that complement the space created.

Mistake #3: Misplacing a cowhide rug in a room

For the cowhide rug to play its full role, make sure to place it correctly in your room in relation to your furniture .

3 ideas for properly positioning your cowhide rug

Rug positioned to surround furniture and delimit space

Carpet positioned partially under a piece of furniture

Carpet positioned diagonally

Advice from Sonia M., founder of PeauDeVache.com and interior designer: “Avoid conventional patterns. Play with furniture and space.” Traditionally, we place our rugs in the same lines as our furniture. We are used to centering our rugs. Here, a cowhide rug invites more originality .

Plan to place it partially under a sofa, under one or two table legs or even diagonally across a coffee table. You will see, your cowhide rug will attract all the more attention.

Mistake #4: Forgetting about exposure and natural light in a room

When decorating, you have to know how to play with the effects of light… and also be wary of it. More and more often, we let natural light into our homes through large windows or bay windows. As pleasant as they are, sunlight and moonlight can damage your dyed cowhide rug .

If you want a dyed cowhide rug, never expose it to direct sunlight. If your bay window faces north, it is quite possible. However, we do not recommend exposing it behind a bay window facing south.

If the location of the rug is exposed to light, then choose so-called “natural” cowhide rugs, which are much more resistant to fading . We can mention: Normandy cowhide , Black & White cowhide or natural sheepskin rugs .

Mistake #5: Favoring “cheap” cowhide rugs over quality.

It is a strong desire of the entire PeauDeVache.com team: to offer quality cowhide rugs. We are committed to it. Moreover, we are all united around the same ethics and our team is committed .

When making your choice, inquire about the design, production and even logistics methods used to make and transport your cowhide rug. At PeauDeVache.com, we believe that every step counts and we work on these different points.

Examples of cowhides of different quality:

French quality with a unique French design.

First price quality, cheap (not offered on our site)

Today, from our workshop in Normandy, we design cowhide rugs, made from French cowhides . We believe that this will make a nice difference in your interiors, compared to cheap cowhides, called “cheap”. Thanks to this, our cowhide rugs will be more pleasant and more elegant.

We hope that these tips will help you better choose your cowhide rug . They are also valid for other rugs: sheepskin, patchwork… Be creative: cowhide rugs encourage you to do so. Now it's time to (well) choose your cowhide rug!

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