The New York Times has a question and answer series in their Home section every Thursday. Today’s question was “What kind of rugs are good for high-traffic areas?” It’s a good article, if brief. Click here to read it.

One of the products they mention is FLOR. I’d like to add that while FLOR is an interesting product, and you can wash some of their tiles in the sink, most tiles looks commercial. In fact, many of them are. Also, FLOR isn’t cheap. Depending on where the rug is going you might be wiser to have inexpensive stain-resistant carpeting made into a rug. You can easily find carpet with the hip look of FLOR. When the rug wears out, toss it and buy something new. You’ll wind up spending less on two rugs than you would for one set of FLOR tiles.