Mar 09 2006
Op/Ed - Oriental Rugs Vs. The Real-Estate Market
The real-estate bubble and oriental rugs. What do the two have in common, if anything?
It has recently come to my attention that there is a corelation between the real-estate market and oriental rugs. Since home owners are not looking long term when they invest in a home, their buying patterns are changing.
The days of decorating homes with accessories that are difficult to transport are gone. Today home owners want to turn over their investment in a matter of two to three years, as opposed to twenty to thirty years.
Therefore, installing expensive wall to wall decorative broadloom carpet throughout an entire house is being replaced by Oriental rugs. Instead of leaving your new beautiful carpet behind, home owners can simply roll up an oriental rug and move it with the rest of the furniture.
In addition, these rugs can be used for multiple purposes. From wall coverings to floor coverings, prayer rugs to saddle rugs and so forth. From the living room to the dining room, and even from indoor to outdoor. Oriental rugs are experiencing a rebirth of sorts. An artform and occupation thousands of years old still useful to our modern techno-savvy lifestyles. Its not surprising that individual pieces themselves have stood the test of time and have survived intact for hundreds of years.
In conclusion, we can see the circle complete itself as something which was once considered old is not new.
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