Ikea’s Stockholm rug, the black and white striped one, has been on my wish list for some time. I thought I’d go for a kilim rug or something more natural but the stripes have a way of tying in other colour and design elements and I wanted to give it a try. It’s not a cheap carpet to buy and try, though.
Mr Price Home stocks a lot of home-ware and décor items, a bit of a hit and miss selection for me, but varied none the less. I was fortunate enough to stumble on the very convincing rug- twin photographed above. As far as I can tell Ikea came up with the original and it has since been replicated by various other home brands. Ikea‘s version is larger and can be found at Nevada furniture for just under R3000 and a couple months delay with shipping. The smaller version from Mr Price Home is R399 and I’m having it sewed together to form one large carpet, it feels like it needs cover more space and for R800 I’d say why not.
1: My apartment 2: Fancy 3: Clean lines 4: Mixed elements 5: On tiles