Our vision for our living space here in Seattle was always pretty simple, but from the beginning it came with the notion of a paprika-colored rug.   After a couple of years we finally got around to doing something about it.

This rug was made in Nepal to benefit Tibetan refugees there.  We imagined that it would live in our bedroom, but it is free to move around and spends most of its time out by our windows.

That’s actually the second one we bought.  The first, a similar color but larger and with a subtler, darker pattern, is from Pakistan and hangs on our largest wall.