Appraisal of Beautiful Rugs That Must Go. Reasonable Negotiable Prices!

I did appraisal of 54 rugs for Hotel Surplus Outlet in Van Nuys. These are beautiful hand made and machine made rugs that start from $100. So if you're looking to buy rugs at reasonable prices contact Charlie at 310-795-1980 or just go there to take the rug of your dream home. These rugs must be sold because a lot of other stuff will be coming in soon so they need the space. These rugs are way cheaper than the rugs in rug stores. Hotel Surplus Outlet works based on volumes and fast turn around not high profits.

Here I am posting some pictures of these rugs.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
Certified Rug Appraiser (CRA)
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
www.RugIdea.com
Tel. 310-770-9085

Saying Goodbye to Your Beloved Rug

Today, we made our last rug sales of 2010. A customer brought a 2 x 8 runner for us to clean. Her aunt who recently passed away had given her the rug a while back. Unfortunately, the rug was too dirty and stained to be worth cleaning. She ended up buying a higher quality brand new rug to replace the old one. We gave her a very good deal since she was our last customer of 2010. She told us to put her old rug outside for a homeless to take, but before we did that she asked us if she could talk to the rug. She told her aunt through the rug how appreciative she was of having the rug and being able to use it. She continued for couple of minutes and talked to the rug about other things. I found it very interesting that someone cared so much about a rug that she was having a hard time letting go.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

Oriental and Persian Rugs

We cleaned up our rug gallery on Thursday. We removed a rack that had machine made rugs on it. We will not be getting more machine made rugs as we are putting our focus back on hand made rugs.
Persian and Oriental rugs are true investment and true art. They have a soul behind them and they are part of an artist's life. They take anywhere from a few months to a few years to be made where machine made rugs are made in matter of minutes and hours.
We decided that rather than selling machine made rugs which are almost the same hassle as selling handmade ones, we will put more focus on educating our customers about our handmade rugs. If a customer is going to buy a 4 x 6 rug for $145, why not buy a 100% natural die, hand spun wool, handwoven rug for $300? They get to enjoy the art of it, the naturalness of it, in addition to the fact that rather than throwing their $145 rug away after few years, they made an investment. Good quality handmade rugs appreciate in value, so a rug that you buy for $300, if taken care of properly, you can sell for more in a course of few years.

This is why we will not be ordering any more area rugs and will enjoy having handmade rugs in our gallery. We will however continue cleaning and repairing all types of rugs, including handmade rugs, machine made rugs, Flokati rugs, etc.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

My Least Favorite Rugs

What is my least favorite Rug? It is not area rug which is also called machine made rug or even hard to clean shag or flokati rugs. It is rather tufted rugs. Why? Because when they're new, they look fine, but after a while, most of them look like a piece of felt with depressed pile. Many of them have cleaning issues. The backing and the backing border strips fell off and dismantle. They get wrinkles in many instances. Many of them smell bad because of the latex backing.

I prefer a medium quality area rug over a good tufted rug. Some dealers or manufacturers call them hand tufted rugs so the customers get the notion and feeling of owning a hand knotted rug. Not very much so.

Khosrow Sobhe
Certified Rug specialist (CRS)
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

You Have to Compromise to Buy a Rug When You Have Limitations

"I don't want to spent a lot of money. I want a good quality rug with good material, desired size, with colors to match the interior design of my room and color combination of my furniture"!!

This is what I hear these days from many customers. Is it really possible to find such a rug? When you have money, size, color, design and many other limitations, lady, you have to compromise and lose something to buy your desired rugs. You only want to spend few hundred dollars and yet expect so much. That is not possible.

When these customers who do not want to spend a lot of money to buy a rug are directed towards area machine made rugs, they say what is the material of this rug and when they hear nylon or polypropylene, they ask for wool or another types of material. Is it possible to pay for a Volkswagen and get a Mercedes? Of course not. What do you say to these customers?

khosrow Sobhe
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085

Kathy Ireland and Her Area Rugs in Los Angeles

Kathy Ireland area rugs are produced by Shaw Industries, a very famous manufacturer of machine made rugs. Kathy Ireland (born March 20, 1963) is an American super model, actress, author, and entrepreneur. Kathy Ireland is a wife, mother, Sunday school teacher, and Chief Designer and CEO of Kathy Ireland Worldwide (KIWW), whose mission is “… finding solutions for families, especially busy moms". Shee has recently entered the world of rugs and Shaw Industries makes beautiful area rugs in several different categories for her. We have some of her rugs and her collections in our rug gallery in Los Angeles.

Khosrow Sobhe
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085