![]() ![]() So I started with a few things that are known to wreak havoc on light colored rugs and are likely to get spilled under a dining room table: Spaghetti sauce, chocolate sauce, and mushed up strawberries (raspberries had the same result). I wanted to show you all how easy these rugs are to clean and despite their light color, every food stain you can imagine comes out! It looks like it was ‘meant to be’ doesn’t it? The colors and pattern are so up my alley. This is the Rugby Stripe Light Blue Indoor/Outdoor Runner Rug. I would highly recommend carpet tape when using flat-weave rugs over a hard surface… the shifting will drive you nuts if you don’t! I also used some carpet tape to secure the corners and middle so that it doesn’t shift when we walk over it. I folded over the cut edge and used some upholstery thread to sew that side down so it wouldn’t unravel. We have had them for almost 2 months now and I’m still impressed!īecause my kitchen is on the smaller side, I cut the runner (which is normally 8 feet long) down to fit perfectly in my space. Any spot or stain that occurred from dirt or food simply wiped clean with a damp rag! I had never beheld such sorcery from a rug. But after a week with them in place I was sold. As I alluded to, I was skeptical at first because of how light colored they were and I was worried about their stain-ability. I was beyond impressed with these indoor/outdoor rugs from Dash and Albert by Annie Selke. I had been contemplating for a while adding a runner in the kitchen, but I hadn’t even considered a rug for our dining room because I knew what a hassle it could be to clean! But I figured this could be a sort of “test run” to see how I would like a rug in there. We cut ours off a couple of inches under the top of the lowest riser it could make it to, then placed the new runner on top of that, and stapled as normal, every 2-3 inches.This post is sponsored by Annie Selke Company.įor the photoshoot back in February, the stylist ordered a couple rugs for my kitchen and dining room. If you have a long set of stairs and need more than one rug (we needed three!), you’ll have to make sure you can’t see where one starts and another begins.Continue working your way down the stairs until you reach the bottom. As you work your way down the stairs continue measuring the distance between the edge of the runner and the wall to be sure you aren’t starting to go crooked!.(note: you will only be stapling the rug into the riser, never the tread. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pull the runner tight and staple every 2-3 inches at the very bottom of the riser.Place your runner in its correct spot and staple every 2-3 inches across the top of the riser.That meant the runner was supposed to be three inches from the left wall, and three inches from the right wall. My runner was 30 inches across, and my stairs (where we started, which isn’t pictured) are 36″ across. Measure the width of your staircase to determine how much space will be on each side of the runner.For this we needed a staple gun, lots of staples, and a pair of scissors. Putting it in, believe it or not, was quite simple, especially compared to our previous task of figuring out even baluster spacing and the correct angles, etc. I put it on the “things-I-will-eventually-have-in-my-home” list. They had beautiful wood stairs with a black diamond Dash and Albert stair runner. I was photographing a newborn baby in my client’s home. The Dash & Albert diamond rug is something I discovered while working as a photographer. Today I want to show you the final step to updating our stairs–adding a Dash and Albert stair runner. Last month you saw the first part of our Stair Update, where we said goodbye to dirty carpeted stairs and hello to white oak stairs with white risers. Some links in this post may be affiliate links. Advertisements House Becoming Home is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to. ![]()
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