To spend £1,900 on a rug?

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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!!

The one I linked to is 100% wool.

Crazy. Go to home sense. They’ve got gorgeous rugs

Saves wasting more peoples time setting the search filters. If she was actually bothered she wouldnt have posted enough details that there was only one option.

Why wouldn't you post it though??

I was going to say “if you love it, if you can afford it, go for it”

but my love, that’s a lot of money to spend if it’s taking a year to save £500. Wait till you’ve saved £3000 so that you can spend it AND have some back up.

plus… if your anything like me, you’ll save the money and then think, “im not so sure now”

you need to have rainy day money

(and I’m a fine one to talk)

but this is my advice to you.

When I've needed a rug I've gone to GH Frith in Bodelwyddan, and had a browse at what's in sale/ price range. Could you do something similar near where you live? It could be a bank holiday day out. £1,900 on a rug that could potentially and easily get damaged is a very risky purchase.

That’s not overly expensive for a proper wool rug.

OP, I totally get it. There’s stuff I’ve coveted online for months and months, not being able to afford or wanting to spend the money on.

In your situation, I’d say no honestly. If you’ve managed to save only £500 towards it in a year (I also get this, we have very little to save every month after food and bills are paid for!) then the repayments would be horrible, and if you have a sudden unexpected expense you’ll wish you had the extra every month to put towards that, rather than repayments on a rug.

Before my son was born, I bought a new rug for the lounge. Our carpeted floors are ridiculously hard and I wanted something lovely and fresh to plop my newborn down on. It wasn’t £1900, it was £140 and I was utterly neurotic about getting it dirty. The first uncleanable mark gutted me - my beautiful rug! I tried so hard to keep it nice! But life happens and if I’d not got over it and realised that’s what happens to rugs I’d have been heartbroken. If it had been £1900 I’d have never let anyone walk on it or been furious at the first accidental spill!

If you live with pets or kids, even more no. This lounge rug in my house has seen things no rug should ever see. But at least it still does its job of making the floor soft and pretty and I don’t fret about it so much any more. I think you’d find it hard to enjoy the rug for all the worrying you’d end up doing about it, plus the fact that it’s not affordable for you. And that’s ok! I think for most people just shy of 2 grand is a hell of a lot of money for one bit of decor in their house.

If you had enough cash to pay it off in a few months I’d say differently, but if you’re like us and one car/house/life disaster away from struggling to cover bills, the last thing you want is a monthly repayment that’s really high siphoning your spare cash every month.

It probably isn't. But it's way too expensive for a person who earns £1500 pm and has taken a full year to save £500 towards it.

Ruggable have loads of similar for much less. This is the first one I saw but I have shopped there and I know there will be loads of others that are closer.

https://ruggable.co.uk/products/celestine-soft-blue-medium-pile-rug?tw_source=google&tw_adid=733707129985&tw_campaign=22264006525&gad_source=1&gbraid=0aaaaaceaeielxisbtednls0tw-_un8byg&gclid=cj0kcqjww-habhcgarisallo6xxucumnzzll-fjvxcqghmb6_udkqyou280ycrfc4k8kabnxa4inijuaaptyealw_wcb&size=200x290

You don't earn enough to spend that amount of money on a rug.

I would go see the label and see if you can research where it is made or do a reverse image search in google - you never know it might pop up somewhere else or something similar you like more for cheaper than john lewis prices.

a reverse image search brought up this one

Contemporary Vintage Oushak Wool Area Rug 9x12, Sea Blue Turkish Knot Rug for Living Room, Hand Knotted Bedroom Rug: Sweet Bonnie Wool Rug - Etsy UK

People buying cheapo shit from IKEA and then discarding these items at local dumps when they are sick of them is a massive issue. Disgusting fake fibres do not rot down, so revolting polyester rugs are super harmful to the planet. Pay a bit more for things and place value on them.

Try an auction house or ebay. I pay about £100 for rugs. My Turkish Hall rug cost £42. The dog peed on it so it had a Vax wash. It's OK.

I do believe in investing, we have had household items for 2/3 decades.
A month's wages is a lot unless you know you can earn a bit more quickly.
I very rarely buy new so have a good look online. It might come up on a discount.

a wool rug is an investment. it lasts many, many years and will bring you joy. If you can afford the installments then go for it. I'd be very careful of pets and food in the living room though.

auctions can be amazing for this stuff but factor in delivery and commission.

Agree with others you will find lovely wool rugs on Etsy for a fraction of the UK price. However if you are that in love with the rug, I would buy it. Rugs are like art for your floors!

Precisely!

This isn't about paying a 'bit more'. The OP is on a low income and would be unwise to buy something that costs more than her monthly salary when it has taken her a full year even to save for a quarter of the total cost.

Those who can afford to avoid 'cheapo shit' should do so. And other posters have suggested ways that the OP may be able to do so without bankrupting herself on a £2k rug.

My cheapo ikea rug is 15 years old and still used

Search for the name and manufacturer of the rug and see if you can get it cheaper elsewhere - JL are not known for good value.

Not really an investment is it? It's not going to make them any profit, and I could buy my IKEA rug 40 times over for the same price.

I get wanting something lovely but don't know if I would spend that on a rug. A sofa/kitchen table/bed ..yes. just the potential for stains and wear and tear means it won't last as long as it should . I have a lovely rug from dunelm..

It would be cheaper to go to India on holiday and buy similar - you'd be able to get for around £500 and a lot more profit would be going to the local Indian economy.