The rug pad beneath you, and the floor plan around

Posted by Matt Morris on February 1st, 2020

When it comes to rug pads, my friend, we are all staring down the same barrel. Pads can be great for traction for your rugs and to protect high traffic areas from scoring the finish off the floor or preventing wandering rugs.

Ultimately, these rug pads must be replaced, and come at a price.

You can mitigate this by ensuring that you buy the right quality of pads and taking the appropriate care. If you do your research and get the best rug pads, you will no doubt be prepared for anything the world might throw at you.

If you peel that back a little, there's actually a huge lesson to be found. Take the time to really think about your life, and what these rug pads might represent as a metaphor.

Your nice, beautiful floors have been crafted with care and at great expense. Regardless their beauty, they must be set off with the right area rug.

Once you have the right area rug, you need something to interface the area rug with the floor.

That interface is not unlike the interface that we seek in a partner.

A good partner or significant other sits beneath you on the beautiful floor plan that is your life, help you to stay firm in your placement and keep you from doing too much damage to that floor plan along the way.

We get too close to the things we love or fear to lose. We cling too tightly and things break. We try to play it too easy and we end up slipping across the floor and breaking the Ming vase.

It requires someone who can help us stay connected to the right place in our path and appropriately buffer us against the realities of our hardwood floor. If you want to keep your hardwood shiny and avoid the need to resurface and reseal, this interface is invaluable.

Remember, though.

Just because it sits beneath you and offers support does NOT mean that it IS beneath you, or deserves to be trodden upon without regard to the fact that it's not meant to take the foot traffic directly--that's your foot traffic and you have to absorb the brunt of those high heels and the heavy impact of decisions that risk dangering your floors.

We could all learn something from this simple little floor mat. Even at a wider angle, considering the whole of humankind, we have a great purpose that is sometimes veiled beneath other people's rugs or so obscured by clutter so as to be entirely invisible.

If we as rugs and rug pads could see fit to understand our purpose and tailor how we react to the blows of foot traffic, then and only then could we see the damage we're unintentionally doing to the floor.

Lift up your head and look around you. What purposes do you see? What floor plans and refurbished exist that may be artificially damaged by closed-mind or a lazy approach to getting the right.

How do you take accountability for these risks? How do you ensure that you aren't putting excessive weight or pressure on your rug pads? Only you can decide how your rug is meant to fit, and where.