Floorplan Rugs Press Releases

RugYourCity is back! This time its sights are set on Los Angeles

Floorplan, a designer-founded company intent on creating a better rug buying experience, today opened the second Design Challenge for its RugYourCity platform, this time with a focus on Los Angeles. View full article →

Floorplan Awarded Best Of Houzz for Service

Floorplan Rugs of Los Angeles has won “Best Of Service" on Houzz®, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. View full article →

Los Angeles will be the focus of RugYourCity's Second Design Challenge

Now that the votes are in from our Kickstarter backers, we're happy to announce the subject of our next RugYourCity Design Challenge..... View full article →

What's Your New York City Personality

We may not all be from New York, but we all carry a little bit of New York in us anyway! Discover YOUR NYC personality: http://bit.ly/NY-personality View full article →

Early Bird Rug Rewards are almost gone!

Almost two weeks into our Kickstarter project for #RugYourCity, we have dozens of backers! 3x5 and 4x6 rugs have been a backer favorite, and they are almost gone! View full article →

Bios: Meet the Designers Behind Rug Your City on Kickstarter

Novelists, film makers, fashion designers, architects all tell stories of place through their art. Rug weaving is another way that places have been commemorated throughout history, but the medium is largely inaccessible to a broad design community. We want to change that. The designers behind Rug Your City on Kickstarter have a variety of backgrounds: from architecture to fine art, environmental consulting to graphic design. View full article →

Why are some designs hand-knotted and others hand-woven?

For Rug Your City, we have identified the basic construction method most appropriate for each design, and will explore additional techniques during the prototyping process. Out intention with this approach is to reliably produce quality handmade rugs that will look great and reflect a range of price points for backers. View full article →

The Story Behind "Rug Your City"

It all started with a desire to involve some of our very bright, very talented friends in our new business. Though Mehmet has a long history with rugs, he's a trained architect. I'm a writer and designer who's worked mostly on web sites, apps, brands and services. We wanted to create Floorplan to bring a fresh perspective to the rug industry — one that's open, creative and attuned to how things get done in 2015. We wanted to make buying great rugs easier for people, and we wanted to support the skilled artisans who keep this timeless craft alive. As designers, we also wanted to make some really cool things that people would love to have in their homes. One thing we both love... View full article →

Floorplan Launches Rug Your City on Kickstarter: A Project to Modernize Storytelling in Handmade Rugs

Handmade rugs and kilims inspired by modern cities revive the storytelling tradition of classic Persian and Turkish rugs. Pilot collection captures the spirit of New York. Backers to vote on the next city. If funded, Floorplan Rugs will use social media to nominate cities and engage a broad creative community in collaborative design. August 18, 2015 – LOS ANGELES – Floorplan, a designer-founded company intent on creating a better rug buying experience, launched Rug Your City on Kickstarter today. As the name suggests, Rug Your City is a project to create handmade rugs inspired by modern cities, refreshing the centuries-old tradition of depicting local life and culture in classic Persian and Turkish rugs and kilims. Floorplan is seeking $12,000 to... View full article →

New Collection: Vintage Kilim Pillows

Old rugs are salvaged for their material, re-cut, re-dyed, transformed into patchworks, and more. Here, we present a series of vintage kilims transformed into pillows. They have a thick new cotton cloth backing, a sturdy zipper and comes with filling. View full article →