Decorating with Kilim Rugs

My house is...one of a kind.  I love it, and it's true.  Because it's 110 years old and was made without modern tools some of its proportions and measurements are a little off.  Which makes it difficult to buy things for certain areas of the house.  Case in point: a rug for the entryway.  I learned (the hard way) that I'm going to need a super-thin rug for that room because the doors (which are not quite straight across the bottom) will catch on a typical pile rug.  Happily, there are quite a few options for thin rugs, one of my favorites being kilim rugs.

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Kilim rugs are flatwoven, made by interweaving the different strands, almost like a braid, as opposed to a pile rug or carpet which is made by knotting strands so that they stand up.  The advantages to having a flatwoven rug are two-fold: 1. It's thin so it's more likely to silde under doors and 2. it's reversible because the pattern is woven throughout.  Their designs originate from many different cultures (North Africa, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Asia to name a few) so the variety of patterns is pretty much endless. Here are just a few of my favorites:

{rugs: antique senneh kilim, $138; shirvan kilim, $190; kelardasht kilim, $1,950; indo kilim, $200; kite kilim, $39-$649; surya kilim, $1,090}

Do you have any areas in your home that are hard to "dress?"  Have you come up with any good solutions?

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