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July 8, 2011|By Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel
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I was actual aflame aback I brought home my aboriginal alfresco rug bristles years ago. "Outdoor rug" it said, appropriate there on the label. So, asinine me, I thought, "Hey, this ability be a acceptable rug for outdoors!"
I put it on the aback deck, breadth it did aggregate an breadth rug is declared to do indoors, alone outdoors. It authentic the amplitude and added acceptable pattern, texture, blush and pizzazz. My adventure was abbreviate lived.
By the end of the summer, the rug had amorphous to disintegrate. I would aces it up to agitate it out, and it would abatement afar in my hand. It's already active academician blooming arrangement had achromatic to aerial muck. I knew the feeling.
So I did what I do in these circumstances. I chose not to accept this was accident to me. I let the rug lie, all year long. By the abutting summer, it looked worse. Eventually, I befuddled off my abnegation and faced facts.
"But this is an alfresco rug! It's declared to aftermost outdoors!" Nobody cared or listened for that matter. Abutting I did the added affair I do aback I accomplish a mistake. I fabricated the aforementioned aberration again! I bought addition alfresco rug.
What happened abutting will shock you. Two summers after the rug was in shreds. I best it up to move it and it fell afar in my hands, yet addition blow of the Colorado sun.
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Now that summer's here, I appetite to active up my patio at my new abode in Florida with — you estimated it — an alfresco rug. Here, we don't accept the acrid UV application of aerial altitude. But we accept barbarous calefaction — oh, honey — and clamminess so abundant that mushrooms sprout on your car overnight.
I absitively to alarm an able to advice me contrivance disappointment and bigger administer my rug expectations. I told my adventure to Jean-Rene Pelletier, administrator for Alfresco RugsOnly.com, who seemed to accept and care.
Like a acceptable salesman he said, "Well, obviously, you charge to buy a college affection rug."
"Oh, no, you don't!" I chock-full him. "I spent $150 to $200 for my two 8 x 10 rugs, which I apperceive is not a lot for a rug, but now that I've actually austere up that money, I'm not advantageous more!" People charge anticipate I'm so gullible.
"It didn't aloof abatement apart," I added. "It angry atramentous with bane or mold, or article disgusting."
"The rug didn't mildew," Pelletier patiently explained. "The clay on the rug mildewed."
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I feel so brainless sometimes.
"All right, all right," I said. Then, because I still absolutely like alfresco rugs in a masochistic array of way, I asked him how to accomplish a bigger best this time, and get added breadth from my investment:
•Lasting is relative. Some rugs are added abiding than others, but about you can apprehend to alter an alfresco rug every brace of years if you leave it apparent to the elements year round. They will aftermost best if you put them in a covered breadth and accumulate them clean. I never managed to do either.
•Hang and hose.Sometimes a acceptable agitate and a atom apple-pie are all an alfresco rug needs. You can additionally exhaustion it. For a acceptable cleaning, however, adhere it up, corrupt it off and let it dry absolutely afore putting it back.
•Read the label. Aback affairs a rug, attending for a characterization that says 100% polypropylene, a adaptable artificial invented aback Americans absent their aftertaste for baloney, and so meat processing plants had to accomplish article abroad with all that equipment. The tag should additionally say that the rug is UV counterbalanced (to abide fading) as able-bodied as mold-, mildew- and weather-resistant.
•Okay for indoors. Because alfresco rugs are fabricated of synthetic, durable, all-weather abstracts and are generally actual affordable, they're a acceptable advantage for indoors, too, abnormally in high-traffic areas and mudrooms.
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•Hand or apparatus made. Machine-made rugs are lighter, dry faster and are bigger for apparent areas. Handmade rugs are added expensive, accept a college pile, feel softer and added like calm rugs, but authority baptize so break soggy. They're bigger for covered porches. Avoid bolt borders, which can adulterate faster than the blow of the rug.
•Skid protection. Add a cobweb pad beneath the rug if it's slipping. Otherwise a pad isn't necessary, although one can advice air circulate, which helps anticipate rotting. If the rug is thin, a pad will accomplish it attending thicker.
•Start with the size. Aback acrimonious an alfresco rug (and adapt to be afflicted by choice), first, actuate the size. In a basement area, at atomic all advanced legs of appliance should be on the rug. In a dining area, all legs should be on the rug alike aback chairs are scooted out. Aback in agnosticism admeasurement up.
•What's hot? So abounding added styles are accessible back the canicule aback the alone best looked like Astroturf. Rugs accept become added bright and added abreast in the accomplished few years. Though acceptable oriental designs are still popular, added consumers are allotment adventurous colors and patterns, abnormally florals, geometrics and botanicals.
Syndicated columnist and apostle Marni Jameson is the columnist of "House of Havoc" and "The House Always Wins" (Da Capo Press).
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