Friday, November 13, 2015

Steps in Installing a REAL Handmade Stairway Runner Demonstrated by Bucks County, PA Rug Store Brandon Oriental Rugs | VIDEOS

A brief recap of the steps involved in the installation of a real hand-knotted oriental rug runner in our customer's home in Doylestown, PA
Brandon Oriental Rugs performed a custom search for the matched runners and a coordinated 5x8 hand-knotted oriental rug for the hallway on the second floor. Once found, and approved by the homeowners, the runners were custom resized to fit the two flights of stairs.  This alteration was done in a way that is virtually undetectable on the face and back of the rugs, and does not alter there value or potential for alternative use in future homes.

Please notice that by choosing to use real rugs, instead of machine -made roll runners, the finished look is much more pleasing. The rugs, liked framed paintings, are bordered all around, unlike roll runners that have borders only on the sides. 

Notice too that custom finished wrought iron decorative Stair-Holds were used instead of brass rods. This allows the beauty of the rugs to be featured instead of a lot of brazen hardware.

STEP ONE

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STEP TWO



STEP THREE


STEP FOUR


STEP FIVE


STEP SIX


STEP SEVEN

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THE PRELIMINARIES


Here are the areas and communities we serve 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.

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Oriental Rugs Are Where You Want To Be | Free Demo

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In the picture above, you are here: in this room.

But your eyes (the mirrors of your soul) are telling you that you could be over there: in that room.

Can you appreciate that REAL handmade oriental rugs transform spaces into places you would prefer to be?


(Real handmade oriental rugs are the only kind that Bucks County, PA rug store Brandon Oriental Rugs offers: that means NO machine-made; NO tufted; NO imitation anything.)



Here are the areas and communities we serve 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.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Langhorne, PA Interior Design Professional Selects Handmade Rug from Bucks County Rug Store Brandon Oriental Rugs - www. BrandonRugs.com - as First Step in Makeover of Her Own Living Room

Previously, Brandon Oriental Rugs posted on Twitter about our efforts on behalf of a Bucks County, PA interior designer whom we have helped on numerous projects. 

This particular project was slightly more challenging for her however, because it involved the direction she is taking to redecorate the living room of her own home.

The "BEFORE" images above and directly below, show that the designer has started the transition of her living room from rigid formality to an overall more relaxed look-and-feel suggested by the arm chairs, glass top coffee table, and Shaker-influenced end tables.

The sofa is scheduled to be re-upholstered, the window treatments are being changed to Plantation shutters, and the wall color (to be determined) will go from pale yellow to a warm gray neutral.


The rug chosen (after the pre-screeening of multiple alternate selections outlined above in the TWITTER post) is an 8x10 Pakistan (Peshawar) Khotan collection rug (shown below on the day of its arrival and unveiling at Brandon's one and only location just outside Doylestown in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Made with 100% hand-spun, vegetal dye wool yarns on a cotton foundation and given a signature "silver wash" to impart the crisp, linen-toned background color associated with Khotan Collection reproduction oriental rugs, this rug brings the impact of a REAL hand-knotted oriental rug to the design plan with a subtle, subdued, understated complementarity.


Seen in the images below in the living room of the designer's Langhorne, PA historic district home on the day of installation, her beautiful new rug is right at home with all she has done in the room, and with the new directions in which she is taking it.


In order to give her time to organically develop her vision for the room, Brandon made every effort to find a common ground between where her room began and where she hopes to take it that was not in any way a compromise away from the ultimate goal. 


As her plans develop and are realized, she may continue to enjoy the comfort of a rug that is well coordinated with everything past and future in her home.

Monday, October 26, 2015

A Real Hand-knotted Oriental Rug (runner) Transforms a Bunch of Steps Into a Grand Staircase

Bucks County, PA rug store Brandon Oriental Rugs (www.BrandonRugs.com) custom installs custom fitted hand-knotted oriental rug runner with custom machined brass stair-rods in home custom renovated by our customer.




The image shows the proper way to install an oriental style rug on a stairway. 
  • Notice that (unlike commonly available "roll runners" which are bordered only on the sides) a real handmade runner is like a beautifully framed picture with borders on all sides. 
  • Also, notice that runner has been custom fitted for the stairway on which it is installed: it begins under the nose of the landding above, and cascades downward to a perfect finish at the junction of the riser of the first step and the floor. 
  • This rug was originally two identical ("sister") runners joined together and then specially cut to fit the entire length of the stairway with extra work required to fit the two curved stairs at the bottom. 
  • The solid brass rods are made with custom turned finials cut directly onto (not screwed onto) the ends of the rods.

This, in toto, was not an inexpensive solution or easy installation. Considering the superb renovation undertaken by our customers with the utmost regard for the legacy of their home, nothing less was ever considered as an option. Well done all around.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Begin With The End In Mind


About the time that your universe begins to take form, you might want to consider putting real handmade oriental rugs from Bucks County, PA oriental rug store Brandon Oriental Rugs into your creation. 

For all of the wonderful spaces you are planning, and for all of the days to come when you will be enjoying all of your beautiful plans, you will see that it is GOOD.

Buckingham Township, PA Homeowners Select Fine Quality Hand-knotted Oriental Rug from Bucks County Rug Store Brandon Oriental Rugs - www.BrandonRugs.com - to Complete Living Room | PHOTOS

Brandon's customers are engaged in a long-term redecorating project throughout their Buckingham Township home. 



Seeking to better unite new facing sofas in the living room, they opted to transfer an old rug that had been in the room to another room of the house, and search for something really special for this area at the center of their home.


The rug selected is a 10x14 reproduction Hadji-jalili Tabriz style rug made in India. While originally looking for a rug with a black background, the homeowners decided that the radiant warm red tones of this rug provided a needed and welcome balance to the subliminally cool feel of their room caused by the pale blue paint color on the walls, the linen white and gray colors on the sofas, and indirect natural light imparting a grayish rather than yellowish cast to the room throughout most of the year.


The photos above and below show the richly variegated vegetal dye palette and the hand-spun wool textured detail of the rug.
The image below (showing the back of the rug) uses a US Quarter Dollar as a one square inch reference standard. It is clear to see that the rug is produced according to a 14/14 contract: there are fourteen knots horizontally per linear inch and fourteen vertically. Multiplying yields a knot density of 196 hand-tied knots per square inch. A ten foot wide by fourteen foot long rug with this level of detail requires a total of over four hundred person days of labor to produce.


Needless to say, Brandon's customers have chosen a rare and valuable work of art to grace the floor of their home's living room.