This is an updated post as vintage rug runners in the kitchen are still going strong. In fact, we just purchased one for our new kitchen. And Etsy is a great source.
Rugs are a good idea to protect your floor from moisture near the sink and dishwasher. Also near the refrigerator if you have an indoor water and ice dispenser. They feel good on your feet and add a Bohemian style.
Vintage rug runners:
Can make newer kitchen spaces feel layered and more textured. For example…
The hand-tied, one-of-kind, wool rugs come mostly from Turkey
on Etsy and are washed and dried in the sun…nice and clean.
We bought this vintage rug from Antika Art on Etsy way before my client’s new kitchen was installed.
We have a corner sink in our new kitchen in Florida so we needed a small rug to fit.
Here are some good sources:
Antika Art
Store Kilim
Urban Rug
Glory Rugs
Cappadocia
Medallion Rugs
Shop Vintage Rug Runners:
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You may also like Affordable Vintage AREA Rugs for a Modern Look.
MaryAnn,
As we just finished our kitchen I am looking for a vintage runner! Thanks for sharing your sources. Happy you survived the hurricane! Hopefully the clean up was not too arduious.
How do you keep the rugs safe to keep them from slipping?
Good point! I always use a rug pad.
Hi! I love your page.
Can you please share where the first rug is from?
Thanks
They are all one of a kind vintage rugs.
I am completely enjoying The Library Book by Susan Orlean. I have actually slowed my reading pace because I am not yet ready for it to end.
Your home is beautiful. I am new to this site. I love your use of linens and texture and flowers.
Marge
Wow..that’s high praise!
Love rugs in the kitchen. Thank you for the great suggestions. Now to books…The Nightingale (WWII France) is on of the best books I have read in a long time. Keeping with WWII, next read was Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Milan, Italy) which was great as well as it is a true story. Took a break with Nine Perfect Strangers (Australia) by the same author of Big Little Lies, slow start but worth the wait until take-off. Collage of Life’s Brown Paper Book Club is a great place for sharing as is Goodreads. Now off to bed to read my current book, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, another true story. Happy reading!
Mary Ann,
Thanks for the resources for rugs. I love some of the selection in each Etsy shop and will be doing some serious shopping.
I’m loving our current weather pattern in So. Cal. I enjoy the cooler temps, makes it seem more like winter. haha.
Karen
Although I love the look of a vintage runner, I have always purchased inexpensive kitchen rugs at Target because I have two dogs and a messy husband. How do you keep a vintage runner looking nice? Surely they aren’t washable, are they?
Same question. Our sink rug gets soiled and washed often.
I have a Ruggable in the laundry room that can go in the machine. The vintage rugs are already washed. You can hose them off and let them dry in the sun.
First, I made your roasted red pepper soup the other day and it is delicious! Thank you for another soup to add to my recipe folder.
Love these runners and one would be perfect for our kitchen. I live the one that is primarily blues that you got for your client before she started her remodel. But blue is very hard to find. I’ll keep looking.
Yes…I notice that blue is not common. Glad you made the soup. I still want to make your Italian Wedding Soup!
You have a gorgeous view! Thanks for the reminder about the vintage rugs. They’re gorgeous.
Do you have any posts on classic kitchen pendants? Looking for one with no glare from exposed bulbs, not trendy, but not stuffy. Finish that will work with my ORB in adjoining dining room.
Susie
https://classiccasualhome.com/13-great-pendants-to-update-your-kitchen/ Might be time to redo it.
come AT A BETTER DAY, not JOIN!
this could not have come join a better day!
as I assemble a proposal for a client I started on the path of pulling images for a vintage runner in her all white/sterile kitchen, and viola! and sources!! big hugs & kisses!
I just finished the Tatooist, enjoyed is a hard read but think we said we both read this genre
xoxoxo
debra
Good luck, Debra!
I really enjoyed these books:
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan, which is free on Amazon Prime Reading right now.
Maude by Donna Foley Mabry
The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
There are a lot of recommendations at Modern Mrs Darcy site 🙂
Thanks so much!!! Love free on Amazon 🙂 And will check out your other suggestions!!
I’ve used Overstock to purchase runners for heavy duty areas in my house such as halls and my kitchen. I even used a larger rug as a table “topper” over the table in my library/family room. They are not vintage, but wool Afghan rugs are hard wearing. I like the geometry in the rugs and find them beautiful. As for reading, I just finished Madeleine Kammen’s When French Women Cook: A Gastronomic Memoir that I enjoyed. A Gentleman in Moscow was one of last year’s favorites. We just had Wi-Fi installed (yes, we are dinosaurs!) a rather daunting project in built environment and 2-story house, but I am looking forward to getting a Kindle. I love books, but I am running out of room!
Great book ideas! I’m looking at Overstock for an 8 x 10 for my son’s apartment.
I don’t have a rug at home but I did put rugs in our AirBnBs’ kitchens. It softens the ambience–hard floor, hard walls, hard appliances, hard counters–a rug absorbs some of the clackety kitchen noise.
If you have a yard, you can take it outside and hose it down on a warm summer day. I do that with all our rugs, picking a day with low humidity so they dry quickly.
As for books, I’m not on top of the latest releases, but I really love M.F.K. Fisher. She was a food writer who lived in France and California, and she writes about places and food with passion and poetry.
Yes…that’s how they come from Turkey…washed and air dried. Thanks for the author recommendation…right up my alley!
M.F.K. Fischer is a favorite of mine as well. I just finished The Library Book, and enjoyed it If you are a follower of Collage of Life you could join our online Brown Paper Book Club Group, it is on facebook and everyone shares their latest reads, or their favorites past and present. There are always great suggestions.
GREAT idea. Thanks!!
Thanks for the book recommendation, I have just finished reading The Extrodinary Life of Sam Hell on my Kindle,
best book I have read for some time.
Thanks so much for the recommendation!!!
I love this vintage oriental ruga, but where I live there are only new ones, I like the idea of vintage for the kitchen.
Thanks for sharing this great decor idea.
Fabby
You can order on Etsy and they ship everywhere…quickly!