Persian rug

Persian Rugs
This weekend M and I did some shopping for the house. After we got the dining room table and chairs, we decided that we needed a few more things. One of them was a rug for underneath our nice new dining set. We looked at a couple of places and then stopped in at this Persian Rug store. It was huge... rugs piled up everywhere. We told a sales guy what we were looking for and he took us over to this pile of 8 X 10 ft rugs. He then called two guys over to help flip them so we could look at them. They flipped and flipped these 75 pound rugs... then flipped them all back. The one that we liked was about 3/4 of the way down.. about 60 rugs on top of it. The sales guy said "would you like to look at it on the floor, under some natural lighting?" We told him no, that really isn't necassary... but he insisted and then had these two guys lift up each rug.. one by one and pile them on the side... until he got to the rug we liked... 60 rugs below. They then put the rug on the wooden floor and he showed us how one side will look darker than the other becuase of the way it is made. It is a new wool rug made in Agra, India and it is tea washed to look older. It looked really nice... so how much was it? Only $4,200.... ok.. that is a little expensive... so the guy went off to his manager and came back with a sale price of $2,300... without saying anything... he knocked off $200 more... down to $2,100 and offered to have it taken to our house and put under our dining room table for a week so we could see how we liked it. No charge.. unless we called and said.. ok we'll take it. Yeah right....

So, I told him we would think about it.

When we got home, we went online and found a nice rug at Crate and Barrel. I can see why someone would spend so much on a handmade rug.. they do hold their value, the store would even take it back and exchange it at the full sold value anytime in the future. There was a lady in the store doing just that.. but with a bigger rug. I looked around a bit on the way out... there were rugs that cost in the 10s of thousands of dollars and one that was $117,000... that was 120 years old. Pretty cool.. but not for us. You see.. when you put a rug like that in your house.. you need to replace everything around it to fit... the tile in the kitchen wouldn't look good next to it :)