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Rugs for playrooms: soft and easy to clean, contemporary wool rug are perfect for kids
Playrooms are so important for children’s development as they are a great place for them to learn by having fun. To create the perfect room for children to play and interact with each other there are a several things you have to take into consideration. Comfort and safety are two of them. Since children adore to play on the ground and they love colours, we suggest you use one or more colourful rugs for playrooms made out of pure wool.
We know it’s a big challenge to create the perfect playroom because kids are very honest, and they will immediately reject a space they don’t like. Colours, shapes and good quality elements are very important when designing an aesthetically appealing space for children. And, leaving modesty apart, a good quality modern rug like the ones we design will play a very important role in this case.
Wool rugs for playrooms are great because they are resistant, soft and hypoallergenic
Kids can be very sensitive to allergens such as dust, pollen, spores etc. To create a safer space from this point of view, you can add to your playroom a joyful wool rug which is a great hypoallergenic rug – see more on this topic on our blog post: The Best Hypoallergenic Rugs are Chemical Free and made of Wool.
Besides that, adding a kids’ rug to the playroom improves the appearance of the space and creates a cosier room for children to play. Also, it will help with the acoustics of the room – which is an important aspect if you take into consideration that children can be quite loud sometimes. A rug could absorb most of the noise.
These are not the only benefits of using rugs for playrooms. Here are some more: they help maintain a proper temperature in the room; they’re soft and thick, therefore perfect for kids to sit on and play; they’re easy to clean. And let’s not forget a very important aspect for a playroom rug, which will be walked, jumped and rolled over: the resilient pile will keep its shape and springiness.
After Matisse Rug by Sonya Winner Studio
Large rugs for playrooms or multiple rugs for playrooms?
With no doubt, adding a large rug to the playroom will create a beautiful space, full of colour, light and order. Using one large rug or multiple smaller rugs depends on the space shape, your idea of how the playroom should look, and the activities that will take place there.
The main advantage of a large rug is that it covers a big floor area and it will also protect it from scratches or other accidents. A large rug for playrooms will act as an anchor for the rest of the elements, creating a more appealing interior design. When choosing the right size of a large rug for the playroom keep in mind that it should be at least two feet (60cm) shorter than the width and length of the room.
On the other hand, using multiple designer rugs for the playroom could help you to better define your space. Especially in the case of a large playroom you could use multiple rugs to differentiate areas like a reading corner, a creative corner or a playing zone. With smaller sizes, round rugs work particularly well, often appearing larger in the room than they really are.
Choose colourful rugs for playrooms
Colourful kid’s rugs with a geometric or irregular pattern contribute to the child’s development: it improves their attention, helps them learn faster and trigger their curiosity. Our Vibrant Contemporary Rugs can teach children about colour mixing and develop their imagination and creative thinking process.
How colours influence kids
It is also well known the fact that colours have a great influence on kids:
Red is the first color perceived by the baby after the first weeks after birth. This color stimulates the activity of the cerebral hemispheres and helps the development of the muscular system. In addition, red inspires energy, optimism, tone.
Yellow cheers up children, increases optimism, activates memory and metabolism.
Orange is a colour that attracts attention and expresses warmth, energy and enthusiasm.
Blue and green have a calming effect on the nervous system, a calming effect on pain and it also influences breathing, relaxes and calms agitated or fearful kids.
If finding the perfect rugs for playrooms is a time-consuming task, we’re here to help you. Make the right choice with our free Digital Visualisation service. Just send us pictures of your space and we will digitally drop in a variety of our contemporary rugs to find the perfect one for your room.
Bubbles Rug by Sonya Winner Studio
