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Need a big wall decorating solution? 

Don't ignore the utility of real hand-knotted oriental rugs to satisfy the need. One way, pictorial designs are especially appropriate.

 

This 7x10 Persian Kashkoully prayer-design rug costs a fraction of what a similarly sized tapestry, or custom framed print or painting would.

Bucks County rug store, Brandon Oriental Rugs can help you find something perfect for your taste and the unique challenge of your wall space. We can also help with ideas regarding the best ways (depending on rug type and your home's construction) to hang oriental rugs on the walls.

Here are the areas and communities Brandon Oriental Rugs serves directly with all of our #rug-services (including #Rug-Search(tm); #rug-cleaning, #rug-repairs, #rug-appraisals, #room-measurements, #free-delivery, #interior-design-assistance, #rug-consignments, #rug-storage, #insurance-rug-damage-claims, #rug-shipment):

Bucks County, Pennsylvania: Doylestown, Jamison, Warminster, Warrington, Warwick, Washington Crossing, Upper Makefield, Newtown, Yardley, Langhorne, Richboro, Northhampton, Buckingham, Chalfont, Furlong, Lahaska (Peddlers Village), New Hope, Quakertown, Pipersville, Ottsville, Plunstead Township, Buckingham Township, Solebury, Upper Makefield Township, Lower Makefield Township, Bristol, Oxford Valley, Levittown, Morrisville, Wrightstown, Penns Purchase

Philadelphia and Suburbs in Southeast Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Malvern, Devon, Main Line, Chestnut Hill and Bryn Mawr

Mercer County, NJ and nearby communities: Princeton, Titusville, Hamilton, NJ and vicinity

Hunterdon County, NJ and nearby communities: Lambertville, Clinton, Stockton, Whitehouse Station, Flemington, Ringoes, Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Chester, Mendham

Chester, Montgomery and Delaware Counties in Pennsylvania: Valley Forge, King of Prussia, Upper and Lower Merion, Ft. Washington, Blue Bell, Lansdale, Abington, Rydal, Haverford, Huntingdon Valley, Abington, Newtown Square, Rydal, Paoli, Swarthmore, Conshohocken, Norristown, Harleysville, Blue Bell, Lower Gwynedd, Gwynedd Township, Montgomeryville, North Wales, West Point, Upper Frederick Township, Pennsburg, Greenlane, Perkiomonville, Souderton, Sellersville, Pottstown, Chester Springs, West Chester

Lehigh, Berks, Northhampton Counties in Pennsylvania: Easton, Bath, Bangor, Allentown, Bethlehem, Center Valley, Lower Saucon Township and the entire Lehigh Valley

The Poconos and Susquehanna Valley: Jim Thorpe, Mauch Chunk, Hawley, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Pottsville, Stroudsberg, Delaware River Gap

New Horizons (Outside above Listed Areas)? Invite us to help you. We look forward to opportunities to explore new horizons. If we cannot help you with direct-to-door service, we are always pleased to answer questions and offer suggestions of value to you relative to your interest(s) in fine quality handmade rugs. Please give us a call if you need help.

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Arbitrary Interior Design Regulations Hurt Entrepreneurs, Consumers | Hilary Gowins | Huffington Post

Arbitrary Interior Design Regulations Hurt Entrepreneurs, Consumers | Hilary Gowins

"It's unclear who is really protected by extensive licensing requirements for interior designers, because professionals and consumers both suffer when governments adopt hefty barriers to entry."

Homeowners hire interior designers to beautify their living space. It's an industry focused on style, design and aesthetics.

So, given the innocuous nature of the profession, it seems absurd that 26 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, require prospective interior designers to spend two or more years meeting the education and experience requirements necessary to receive a government-issued license to work, according to information from the American Society of Interior Designers.

Despite the hefty requirements these states place upon would-be professionals, the median annual income for interior designers in 2012 was just $47,600. The median annual income for Americans with a bachelor's degree was $49,570.

The median annual income for Americans with a graduate or professional degree, meaning those who study for more than four years of undergraduate work, was $65,528.

So why do prospective practitioners of this trade have to jump through so many hoops? It's hard to imagine that interior designers -- who deal in cabinet design and room layout -- pose a serious safety risk to the public.

Economists Jaret Treber and David E. Harrington of Kenyon College found that state governments that regulate interior design make it difficult for people to enter the profession and more expensive for consumers to purchase design services.

Other findings include:
Interior-design firms in regulated states earn significantly more than those in unregulated states - about7.2 million more in a city with a population of 1 million.
In regulated states, the number of interior designers fell by an estimated 1,300 between 1990 and 2000, demonstrating that regulation is limiting economic opportunity in interior design.
Black and Hispanic interior designers are nearly 30 percent less likely to have college degrees than white designers. Thus, regulations with academic requirements disproportionately shut minorities out of the field.

Increasingly, going into business for yourself or embarking on a new career doesn't just require setting up shop and acquiring the necessary skills for success. It's about paying fees and meeting arbitrary government requirements. According to a 2007 Reason Foundation report, 20 percent of the workforce needed to obtain a license to work as of 2007. In the 1950s, that number stood at about 4.5 percent. And since licenses are usually difficult and expensive to obtain, professionals already working in a given field feel less pressure from new competition.

And often, the rules for each profession don't match up with the level of safety required to perform the job well.

While 26 states require prospective interior designers to have a total of two or more years of education and experience to get a license, the national average for emergency medical technicians is just 33 days, according to the nonpartisan Institute for Justice.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-gowins/arbitrary-interiordesign-_b_5830782.html

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Fine Quality Area Rugs - Naturally Including Oriental Rugs - Are A Step In the Right Direction As Designers and Homeowners Plan Improvements: What’s Under Foot for 2014? | ASID Icon

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Not long after your plans for the design and furnishing of your home begin to take form, consider REAL handmade oriental rugs as essential elements in the completion of your decorating plans. 

Using quality area rugs -- especially traditional hand-knotted rugs -- specifically selected for the goals you have in mind helps to fulfill essential design principles regarding the overall integrity of your plans.

One of the first principles of success is to model the choices of those who have achieved success. When you doing all you can to make your home outstanding, take time to consider how oriental rugs have been used over many centuries to establish and unite decor throughout many outstanding homes. If you do no less, you will achieve as much.

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Persian Rug Symbols and Their Meaning

A picture is worth a thousand words. Every picture tells a story.

In the same way a wedding ring has meaning way beyond being a mere piece of jewelry, the motifs intricately woven into oriental rugs are deeply symbolic with meaning beyond mere decoration. Their purposeful use conveys an enchanting story -- sometimes quite ancient -- about human virtues and aspirations.

Use this pictorial instruction as a key to unlocking the meaning symbolically designed into your rug.

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Huntingdon Valley Homeowner Returns to Bucks County Carpet and Rug Store Brandon Oriental Rugs - www.BrandonRugs.com - to Select Rug for Living Room Makeover

     Our customer in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania had purchased a rug from Brandon Oriental Rugs for her sun-room over fifteen years ago.

     Needless to say, we were honored by her confidence in our service when, at the beginning of her plans for a makeover of the living room of her home, she visited us again and invited us to help her find a rug to help achieve her goals for the room. She wanted something "non-traditional and unique, but good quality with a refined look; nothing wild but nothing average." With our proprietary Rug-Search(tm) service we located several interesting ideas and forwarded images of them to her. She was very excited by the following idea; which in fact became the rug for her "new" living room:

     As can be seen from the image below, she is transitioning from the traditional look of her home as originally decorated by her designer just before the advent of the new millenium to a more relaxed, informal style in-keeping with her personal tastes and the fresh new looks of today.

The dark, mini-print patterned fabric of her sofa is going to be re-upholstered with the silvery light fabric you see draping it above. Along with it, the hand-knotted modern carpet selected from Brandon (featuring an infinitely tiled "basket-weave" pattern rendered in a dense, luxuriously soft pile of embossed silk and wool) is all that will remain of the room seen above.

New paint; new fireplace mantle, surround, and hearth; additional seating; and new accessories including the homeowners impressive collection of artworks will soon complete the transformation of this intimate living room from well done but "expected" to exceptionally well done.

And our customer deserves all accolades for what will conclude as a stunning achievement. With patience, study, and regard for her own tastes, she is remaking her home according to her sense of style. As a style-maker she has set aside banality to project into her environment the refined expressions of herself.

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New Hope, Pennsylvania Homeowner Finds Oriental Rug At Brandon Oriental Rugs - www.BrandonRugs.com - For Spectacular Sauna and Bath Area

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