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Hi, I'm Laurel of Laurels Originals and we're going to have a q and a with a letter from
Karen. Karen writes, hello I'm interested in a floor cloth for a kitchen floor and I
have few questions about our situation. We have a hardwood floor with a pedestal table
and rolling kitchen chairs. The house is a little crooked, so the chairs roll away from
the table if we don't have something providing friction. We need a solution that's easy to
have the chairs roll up and back. We have two messy boys, so we need something that's
easy to clean and doesn't show dirt. We have a light colored house and would like a light
colored canvas but we don't want it to look dirty all the time. My questions: first question,
is a floor canvas a canvas rug a good option if we're going to have rolling chairs on and
off? The answer is “Absolutely!” The whole idea of a canvas rug is we use a putty to
fasten it to the ground, it doesn't stick to the floor or to the rug, but it helps to
fasten the edges of the rug down to the ground so that it prevents scuffing. We’ve installed
these canvas rugs in a beauty parlor where there were rolling chairs going back and forth
all day long with people coming up to the manicurist’s table. So we know that once
the edge is fastened to the floor, to prevent scuffing that absolutely works with rolling
chairs.
Her second question is how do we best keep it clean? Well that's the wonderful thing
about canvas rugs. You do not spend one second more cleaning your canvas rug than you would
the rest of your floor. You have a hardwood floor you have to clean under the kitchen
table anyway, so you clean your canvas rug with the rest of your floor. Just use soap
and water. Any food that spills wipes up and has several coats of polyurethane just like
your wood floor and it's well sealed and so it's very easy to keep clean.
The third question is how dark a background color do we need to camouflage the dirt. It's
not so much the darkness or lightness of the color when you're trying to camouflage dirt.
What we do is use techniques that give you a mottled effect rather than just one solid
color. That could be using sponging or with washes and this gives it some kind of movement
and texture so that the dirt doesn't show up as much, it's hidden in the design and
so that's what we try to do if you have small children. Canvas rugs are perfect solution
for underneath the kitchen table. Thank you very much for sending in your letter, Karen.
I hope if you have any questions you'll email me at laurels originals and check us out at
our website laurelsoriginals.com Please subscribe to my Canvas Rugs YouTube channel and I hope
to see you again, thank you very much, bye!