To spend £1,900 on a rug?

[Theyalwaysknewbest]

I love it so much.
I've been looking at it for over 1 year and I love it as much now as I did when I first saw it.
I've spent a year looking at rugs and haven't found any I particularly like.
This one, I love!
It's 3 metres x 2 metres.
Am I mad to spend this on a rug?
It would fill the floor space in our lounge.
Would sit on top of a wooden floor.
For context, I bring home £1,500 per month.
We are going camping in England for our family summer holiday.
We are not well off! At all!
But I love this rug and there is an option to pay it off monthly at zero % interest.....
I feel like it's wrong to spend this much on a rug but equally I really wish to have it!!

You can't possibly afford it. That's life. Be sensible.

None of this is necessarily true.

You are allowed to love it but it won't change your life in the way you think.
The rug is just a thing. Like a ton of other things that can be bought until we want the next thing.
It's also marketed for people with more disposable income than you Op. You will be reminded of that, every time you walk on it.

Why? We don't have to ask hubbies permission these days y'know

OP if it has taken you a year to save £500 on a small wage, I would consider it absolute madness when you really should be putting money into an emergency fund so you can survive an unexpected expense.

I'm sorry, but it is so wise to have the security of a few months salary if you can, as early as you can in life.

Actually I think wool is easier to look after. I inherited a wool rug my mum bought, oh, it must be almost 30 years ago. I still love it and it looks just like the day it was bought. Whereas the cheap one my husband bought a few months ago from Zara looks awful and is super difficult to spot clean.

So why post, sorry, POST all the details that made it easy to find, oops, I mean, FIND? 🙃

You shouldn’t buy it as you can’t afford it. The length of time you’ll keep it, wool material etc is all irrelevant when it’s taken you a year to save £500.

perhaps if you truly want it you need to get a second job to help save for it as it would be silly to take a loan for a rug

@Theyalwaysknewbest do you have a plan for stopping moths eating it like they did to my wool rug?

Well, perhaps she naively hoped that by stating she didn’t want to upload a photo/have a photo uploaded, people would honour that request/wish?
She was effectively asking posters not to pre-emptively doxx her to her mates should she go ahead with the purchase.

Naive, as I say. Probably learned a lesson that (some) posters will just go ahead and do whatever the fuck they like.

I mean, I could probably have found it quite easily should I have been so inclined (I wasn’t) but I like to think I wouldn’t have uploaded it when OP stated she didn’t want this (and why).

I think uploading it in the circumstances was a kinda shitty thing to do. Hardly the worst thing I’ve seen on here but still. You disagree. Fine.

@longtompot
Would you be kind enough to send me a link for the importer that you have found?
I also did Google lens but didn't manage to find what you have found...xx

Thanks everyone for your replies!
Divided opinions, I can see.
To try and answer questions:
The size I'd be buying would cover most of our lounge floor space, with the wooden floor around the edge of the rug. This isn't a little fireside rug. It will be the whole floorspace.
I got quotes to carpet our lounge and for decent quality wool carpets plus underlay plus the cost of fitting, the quotes weren't too far off the price of this rug TBH.
Wool.......I hear the advice re moths. This wouldn't stop me from buying a wool rug. I've been looking at anti moth treatment sprays made especially for wool rugs that are sold ftom high end rug shops.
I don't have any pets.
My DC are past the age of felt tip stains on flooring or vomiting over the floor.
I wouldn't actually be precious about it. If it gets marked or stained, whatever. I'm not going to be standing there telling my family or guests not to eat/drink/walk/stand on my beautiful rug.
Money.......well that's the whole issue isn't it.
I can just about afford the repayments. It'll be a big deal for me each month. But I can do it. I'd view it as a finite period of time to make the repayments. It's 0% interest on a £1,400 loan (I'd pay my £500 all in one go and have £1,400 left to repay monthly at 0% interest).
Home repairs fund for broken boiler etc. - I've got that. It's ringfenced for such things. I'm not touching it for this rug.

Have you looked on eBay OP?

Often John Lewis seconds or customer returns end up on there after they are bought by resellers so you may pick up a bargain. I have bought a JL flatweave I liked for half price using that method.

As for whether you can afford it, it’s entirely up to you to decide based on what you are willing to sacrifice and the joy it will give you!

I bought a second hand Rug Company rug on eBay for almost £3k. However the retail cost was five times this, and it’s a design that never comes up in sales or second hand usually. It was a crazy amount of money for a used rug, but it’s a statement piece that I could probably sell for what I paid for it if I ever needed to. Someone else would much rather spend that money on a holiday, jewellery or put it towards a car. Personally, I’m still very happy with the rug (8 years later!)

It sounds like this rug will make you really happy. Unless you're a serial overspender, then go for it. Everyone should treat themselves once in a while.
My treat this year was a very expensive electrical item. It makes me smile every time I use it.

I'm not a serial over spender, not at all!
I'm really good at managing our budget and to living within our means.
I have no debt.
No car finance.
No credit card.
I'm not overdrawn in my current account.
We pay our bills.
I batch cook and freeze meals.
Mortgage is my only debt.
I use Vinted for clothes.
I source all sorts of things from Ebay, gumtree, facebook marketplace.
I buy new things in the sales.
I've never splashed out this much on a rug (or anything similar) before, which is why I've been in a state of flux, not knowing whether I should or not!
But I've really enjoyed reading through all the replies, both for and against.
Its awful though, each time I read a 'for' post, I think "Right that's it, I'm getting it!".
Then I read an against post and think "Oh no, I shouldn't get it!".
That's why I posted on here, because I just can't decide whether I'm mad or not!
All I know is, it would bring me inordinate joy every time I walk in to the lounge. And I've never bought myself anything this expensive before, never in my life, not even 1/4 of this rug have I ever spent on my own self for something that is purely for me to enjoy. Which feels wrong. And of course I'm low income, which makes it feel doubly wrong.
But boy do I love it.
And it would look so lovely in our little home.

We once spent £1,000 on a hand knotted rug in Tunisia. We put it in the hall, then didn't like people walking on it. Put it in th bedroom. Fringes got tangled.Now have carpet moths in our fitted lounge wool carpet - impossible to eradicate entirely. Have to spray/use traps several times a year. Beautiful rug is now wrapped in polythene in the attic and I never want anything to do with wool carpets!

I think sometimes an item just speaks to you. You feel connected to it and know it will bring lasting joy. It has that 'just right' feeling, as if you were meant to find it. It's rare to get that feeling in a world of so much tat. I think you should follow it.

Do you wear shoes in the house?

Is it the pale blue one… top review says ‘bought in the sale’. Also that fringe.. would drive me mad straightening it. If you love it, go for it.

Just a small word of advice, I work in a laundry and dry cleaners and we sometimes do rug cleaning. We won't touch wool rugs. Research where you could get this done if required before purchase.

@Theyalwaysknewbest

I can't tell you how much you would like that rug over the years - so it has to be your decision.

But I can tell you about moths. 😂. Do not believe carpet people when they say they can eradicate moths. I am about to buy my 3rd stairs carpet in 11 years and against my better judgment I will get a man made fibre. Those little pesky things are horrors (moths not carpet people). Rentokill or similar are approx £1000 - £1500 ( whole house not one rug. ) & need to be regular. The sort of moth things you get from Lakeland etc don't cut it IME.

If you love it and you can spend a lot of money - so be it - personally I would try to find one for the £500 you already have or a squidge more - BUT you are not me.

All the best whatever you decide

Late to the party but I bought a rug before Christmas, about £100 all in all which was more than I was going to spend but nevermind.

That rug is now trashed. The cat seems to use it as her place to be sick, the kids have bent it with the chair when playing on the computer, the cat also likes to shove her paws under it hunting for imaginary critters and also uses it as her personal scratching area.

I am not happy but in relation to income it wasn't expensive. If I had a rug that cost almost £2K I wouldn't let anybody breathe on it because it wouldn't be affordable to replace. Your income is less than the rug, if something happens to it you may as well have just worked for free for a month. Things always happen. I got face cream all over the (also trashed) carpet. I have yet to find a stain remover that shows literally no evidence of the stain.

Do not buy the rug, find a cheaper one.

There must be someone on here that can pull some strings at John Lewis and get this woman that rug!

I have a Persian rug which transformed my sitting room (bought ages ago when I didn't have huge amounts of money).

I'd just think carefully about the colour and whether you will go "off" it.

Thank you.
I really love the colour though. I won't go off of it.
It's 'my' colour. I've loved these shades of blue always.

@Kittyfluff How rude!

Hey OP, ignore Kitty she's being mean and horrible. Pointless, shouldn't be on the thread.

Post the link to the rug , we can tell you if it's a quality material and worth the cost, especially if we're not blinded by it's beauty 😂

@Theyalwaysknewbest Then I would buy it. It will give you huge amounts of pleasure and will transform the room. A fitted carpet would be a similar price, but a large rug on a wooden floor looks so much more classy.

There are lovely sprays you can get if you're concerned about moths, but if you're walking about on it in any event, they won't like it. They prefer to be undisturbed!!