Really thick long pile shaggy rugs

[PeachesMcLean]

I gather these are rather fashionable now. DH has seen a beautiful one from Habitat for a mere £400

But do they wear well? Or do they just end up looking really matted and horrible? You couldn't hoover one. So if you've got a huge 7ft by 9ft rug, how on earth do you take it out to shake the dust off it?

Has anyone got one of these and what do you think?

[DrNortherner]

I've got a chocolate brown one. Pure wool. It ws £150 from TK Maxx and I love it.

I hang it over my washing line and beat it.

[curlywurlycremeegg]

I hoover mine, but it has been a nightmare, it sheds more than the bloody dog and it's a teal colour so there are teal fur balls all over the place, ended up putting it in the spare roon as it was more hassle than it was worth!

[DrNortherner]

Oh yes, we get the furballs too!

[PeachesMcLean]

Furballs? I suppose they are going to malt aren't they? All that long wool.

Can you really hoover them??? The tufts on the one we saw must have been the length of your finger.

Can't imagine getting a big rug over the washing line. And not sure I want to have that on the list of jobs for DH and I to do of a weekend. How big is yours, Dr? (ooo err!)

[RoyKinnear]

link to habitat one???

[PeachesMcLean]

Weeeeellllll, I think it's this one, very plain, but the colour was much more rasberry in RL and the pile doesn't look as long here. Also the dimensions seem smaller than I remember..... so maybe it's not! I do remember it felt absolutely gorgeous.

[RoyKinnear]

omg i WANT that rug!

[PeachesMcLean]

But do you want raspberry furballs all over your house?

[DrNortherner]

Don't know how big mine is - I can't lift it over the line it is too heavy. Dh has to do it and we beat it together, very therapeutic

If yuo have a young baby I would say no. Crawlers would for ever be eating fistfulls of fluff.

[RoyKinnear]

it should not shed too much

[bubbles4]

i,ve got a dark brown one and its still shedding fur six months on,gave it a good shake the other day and three five pences came out,try to hoover it but you need muscles of steel to push the hoover across it.

[Furball]

and what exactly is wrong with furballs

[GrapefruitMoon]

I always think how impossible to clean something like that if one of the dc's threw up on it!

[pud1]

i have one thats about 7 foot. loved it when i first got it but hate it now. have to het oh to take it outside and shake it. if the wind is in the wrong direction he comes in covered in fluff, thent he dog was sick on it. i was mortified. after spending some time picking dog sicky carroty bits out of the rug i had to get it cleaned. luckly i was having upstairs carpets done so the guy just added it on to the job. I HATE MY RUG

[PeachesMcLean]

Nowt wrong with furballs



LOL at loosing money in the blessed things. I'll just have to explain to DH that he won't be able to play with his Batman Lego on it. That should do the trick.

[DrNortherner]

DH has batman lego?...

[PeachesMcLean]

Yes.

Well, DS thinks it's his but I know who really wanted to get it. DS doesn't get much of a look in. He's getting scalextric for his birthday too.

[DrNortherner]

Lol!!