If your home has a fireplace you need a half circle hearth rug.
A hearth rug is an inexpensive way to customize your living space in a family room or den of your home.
The purpose is twofold, decorative and fire prevention.
Family Home Decor: In days of 'yore the hearth was the center of the home.
Warmth for the home was produced and meals were cooked there.
How many times have we seen in pictures a cast iron pot hanging on a hook over the fire? A pot of stew or soup cooks for the family evening meal.
Now we cook on the stove in the kitchen, and eat on the run.
However, the fireplace gives us the focal point to improve our visual identity to our homes.
Fireplace rugs come in a wide variety of colors and designs.
Half circle is common for the fit to the hearth is the best, but they come in braided ovals and even round rugs.
Rectangle hearth rugs are also available.
Safety: No matter what we think, we as fireplace users in the home must think about safety first.
This may sound like a safety slogan from work but it is the truth.
A fireplace is a way to provide warmth to our homes and with that comes responsibility to our families and ourselves.
A fire resistant hearth rug is a good addition to the safety precautions taken for our use of a fireplace.
A fiberglass or wool hearth rug can be a basic fire stopper.
Fire resistant rugs can provide foundational safety to the use of an open hearth fireplace and give a chance to improve our home's inner beauty.
Remember to keep the flue clean and the wood dry.
Happy Warm Winter Days James Dahlberg