Hiphome Luxury Rug - Design Blog

The handmade carpet industry exploits nearly 250,000 children. GoodWeave is helping to combat this problem and transform the handmade rug industry by certifying child-labor-free rugs and by providing education and opportunities to rescued and at-risk children. The GoodWeave program is implemented by GoodWeave International. 

This year hiphome luxury rugs became GoodWeave certified.  Here is some information on the GoodWeave program more can be found at www.goodweave.org. The GoodWeave label is the best assurance that no child labor was used in the making of your rug. In order to earn the GoodWeave label, rug exporters and importers must be licensed under the GoodWeave certification program and sign a legally binding contract to:

1. Adhere to the no-child-labor standard and not employ any person under age 14
2. Allow unannounced random inspections by local inspectors
3. Endeavor to pay fair wages to adult workers
4. Pay a licensing fee that helps support GoodWeave’s monitoring, inspections and education programs

To ensure compliance, independent GoodWeave inspectors make unannounced inspections of each loom. If inspectors find children working, they offer them the opportunity to go to school instead, and the producers lose their status with GoodWeave. To protect against counterfeit labeling, each label is numbered so its origin can be traced to the loom on which the rug was produced.

GoodWeave also sets contractual standards for companies that import certified rugs. Importers agree to source only from GoodWeave certified exporters in India, Nepal and any other country in which GoodWeave rugs are available. 

Importers and exporters also help support the GoodWeave certification program and its commitment to provide rehabilitation and schooling for all rescued children. Exporters pay 0.25 percent of the export value of each rug, and importers pay a licensing fee of 1.75 percent of the shipment value. Licensing fees go toward monitoring, inspections and educational programs that are part of the GoodWeave program.

GoodWeave's certification standards are set by RugMark International, an associate member of the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labeling Alliance (ISEAL), which leads the world in setting norms and good practices for certification. RugMark's national offices in producer countries implement and enforce the standards.

In the future, the GoodWeave label will mean even more. In addition to addressing the problem of child labor, GoodWeave's certification standard will include other environmental and social criteria, guided by ISEAL’s Codes of Good Practice. To learn more, visit www.GoodWeave.net.

At the age of five, Manju was already working on the rug looms. While she has since been found and freed from illegal carpet work, some 250,000 children throughout South Asia still toil in obscurity. Through the GoodWeave certification program more than 3,600 kids like Manju have been rescued, rehabilitated and educated, and thousands more deterred from entering the work force.

Just another reason why you should buy hiphome custom and collection rugs.  You can contact us at www.hiphome.com.au, 1300 hip home (447 466), or sales@hiphome.com.au.

We thought these images from http://www.digsdigs.com/futuristic-interior-of-it-entrepreneurs-home-villa-f-by-najjar-najjar/#more-21063 may give you some inspiration.  This residence by Najjar & Najjar is almost futuristic.

A little history from digs digs "This house in Vienna, Austria was built in the early 80ties. It belongs to a young and successful IT entrepreneur that recently commissioned Najjar & Najjar to design the villa’s interior. The owner often works at home and recipes his clients there. He also loves Lamborghini and Macs design styles. That’s why the interior design was made with cutting edge technologies in mind. Walls were break up to create the open space which connects the entrepreneur’s working space with a lounge area, a bar and a kitchen. Many technical devices, such as screens are integrated in the custom furniture popping and turning out just by clicking the mouse of the notebook. Floor, wall and ceiling are unified with the same material, “corian”, a composite of marble powder and fiberglass. A huge aquarium with a delicately generated computer graphic marks a blue contrast in the white. LED lighting and sound systems are controlled from the computer, merging the digital world with the physical interior environment."

Next week there will be more from hiphome rugs.

The beautiful living room furniture from Danish furniture maker BoConcept can be found at http://www.home-designing.com/2009/08/contemporary-living-room-furniture.  It is not only stylish but are extremely functional and comfortable. Below each image we have showcased a hiphome rug that we feel would set the room off.

try hiphome's designer rug mayfair black & white



try hiphome's shiny shag zest jet



try hiphome's soft sangria coal



try hiphome's luscious sangria golden glow



try hiphome's stylish sangria light



try hiphome's rhumba exotic



try hiphome's marquee marakesh



try hiphome's boa palais grey



try hiphome's diva audrey light



try a wall to wall rugs with a custom sized dolmo silver rug



try hiphome's bardot night sky

Love our stuff?  Click here http://www.hiphome.com.au/download to access hiphome's wholesale pricing and catalogues, we will also add you to our e-letter. Please remember we only sell to the interior design trade.

We love Lonny - a fantastic magazine devoted to beautiful home decoration. Click on the link above to launch.

We at hiphome thought it would be remise of us if we didn't share with you where some of our inspiration comes from.... trendwatching.com   This website is produced by is a fantastic organisation that shows you future trends, ideas and opportunities.  They are truly worth the time to read.  If you log onto www.trendwatching.com you can subscribe to their free e-letter, which may just make the difference to your business.  We look forward to bringing you more bespoke and designer rug ideas from hiphome next week.

Instead of ambushing you with yet another Big New Trend this month, we decided to make life easier for all of us and send you an overview of the trends we’ve covered so far in 2010. And yes, that includes the ones you deleted from your inbox when things were just too crazy ;-) February 2010 | FUNCTIONALL » FUNCTIONALL highlights a new breed of products and services designed for low(er)-income consumers in emerging markets, but with crossover appeal to consumers in mature consumer societies... Includes 37 examples. (Read online or download as a PDF) March 2010 | 6 TREND VIDEOS » Instead of our usual text-based briefings, our March edition consisted of a light-hearted yet insight-heavy video edition, featuring consumers from all over the world speaking their minds on a variety of trend topics... (View online) April 2010 | BRAND BUTLERS » Why serving is the new selling. With pragmatic, convenience-loving consumers enjoying instant access to an ever-growing number of supporting services and tools (both offline and online), brands urgently need to hone their 'butlering' skills. Includes 59 examples… (Read online or download as a PDF) May 2010 | STATUSPHERE » What constitutes status in consumer societies is fragmenting rapidly, with consumers starting to bestow recognition on fellow consumers who stray off the beaten consuming-more-than-thou-path... (Read online or download as a PDF) June/July 2010 | MASS MINGLING » Long gone are the days when 'online' was synonymous with social isolation and loneliness. In fact, technology is now driving people to connect and meet up en masse with others, in the 'real world'. Includes 33 examples... (Read online or download as a PDF) August 2010 | INNOVATION INSANITY » With the entire world now engaged in creative destruction, the amount of talent, of creativity, of innovations, is staggering. Case in point: the 67 smart, global innovations we rounded up for this briefing… (Read online or download as a PDF) Oh, and please stay tuned for our new September Trend Briefing on MATURIALISM! Happy spotting, Reinier Evers founder, trendwatching.com reinier@trendwatching.com   Want your own copy? If this message was forwarded to you, you can get your own subscription here . Our contact information trendwatching.com Web address: www.trendwatching.com Email address: info@trendwatching.com Office address: 31-35 Kirby Street EC1N 8TE, London United Kingdom

This week we aren't showcasing hiphome's beautiful bespoke and ready-made luxury rugs; Instead we were so impressed with the innovation of the Italian furniture designers Clei,  that we just had to showcase it for you.

Resource Furniture in New York (http://www.resourcefurniture.com/space-savers/),  sells Clei furniture and has created a fabulous video clip that shows exactly how this innovative furniture works, we would be surprised if you aren't impressed.



You can also find Clei furniture in The Comfort Shop in Australia, go to http://www.clei.com.au/ for locations. Below are some examples of the style of the furniture but the clip is really worth a look.




















Don't forget to contact us for all your "innovative" rug needs 1300 hiphome (1300 447 466) or internationally +61 7 5450 6230 or sales@hiphome.com.au

Welcome back.  This week we will be showing you some beautiful living rooms Hülsta

 (http://www.home-designing.com/2010/02/the-2010-living-room-collection-from-huelsta), a German furniture company has come out with its ‘2010 Living Room Collection’ and it is nothing less than stunning. Known for quality and is adored for style, Hülsta has a very exclusive and elite clientèle. Intelligently designed and beautifully crafted shapes are hallmarks of Hülsta.

Below we have shown you a range of hiphome's designer custom textured rugs.  These rugs are like nothing you have ever seen or felt, they will wow any client once you have customised it to fit your requirements (colours, sizes, shapes etc).  For more information on custom rugs http://www.hiphome.com.au/custom_rugs or speak to one of our friendly hiphome staff on 1300 hiphome (1300 477 466).

hiphome's custom royal spain



hiphome's custom rodeo drive designed to your choice of colours



hiphome's custom sevruga



hiphome's custom getties designed to your choice of colours



try hiphome's custom cayman designed to your choice of colours



try hiphome's custom beluga - it is even more textured than the above Hülsta



hiphome's custom penta designed to your choice of colour or pattern



try hiphome's helvetia custom only

http://www.carpetinstitute.com.au/good_health/index.htm

Carpets for healthy living

Dusting off a myth

In the past, carpet has been unfairly singled out for its alleged association with dust and allergies. However those views are little more than urban myths.

For allergy and asthma suffers, the critical issue is the amount of dust and allergens present in the air they breathe.

A recent study by the German Asthma and Allergy Foundation (ALLERGIE konkret 2/2005) found that wall-to-wall carpet reduces dust in the air to half that found above hard flooring surfaces.

Fine dust concentration	Particulates (µg/m3)
Fine dust concentration with hard floor covering	62.9
European Safe Limit Standard	50.0
Fine dust concentration with carpet floor covering	30.4

 
(Ref: German Allergie and Asthma Bund, Media Release 18 June 2005)

The German study backs up the views of Australian respiratory experts Marks & Abramson in their paper ‘House dustmite avoidance: Facts and fiction’ (Asthma Update 2001). Reviewing evidence of the effectiveness of the various dustmite exposure minimisation strategies and clinical evidence, Marks & Abramson conclude that removing carpet has not been demonstrated to reduce overall dustmite allergen exposure in the home and recommend against any drastic and unproven lifestyle modifications such as removing carpet.

It has now been proven that a properly maintained carpet has a positive effect on Indoor Air Quality.

Indoor air quality

Australians typically spend 90% of their time indoors - so indoor air quality is an important factor in protecting health and wellbeing.

The main factors that affect indoor air quality are:

* inadequate ventilation which may occur if heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems (HVAC) are ineffective,
* chemical contaminants from inside and outside the building -- these include volatile organic compounds (VOCs),
* biological contaminants e.g. bacteria, moulds, pollen.

Many countries have instituted standards and voluntary codes of practice that set guidelines for indoor air quality.

We found these beautiful living room images from Zalf at http://www.home-designing.com/2009/10/living-rooms-from-zalf.  There is a lot of texture, colours, fibres and lengths that we  hope you will much inspiration for your interior designing and assist you in choosing a hiphome designer rug.


hiphome's sangria golden glow will give you this look - click on the image for the whole range



hiphome's mayfair will give you this look - click on the image for the whole range



hiphome's sangria coal will give you this look - click on the image for the whole range



to get a beautiful custom look try hiphome's allure champagne and add custom black stripes to give you this look
- click on the image for the whole range



hiphome's bardot linnet will give you this look - click on the image for the whole range



mix it up with hiphome's augusta sand to give you this look - click on the image for the whole range



hiphome's bardot night sky will give you this look - click on the image for the whole range



hiphome's rhumba napa will give you this look - click on the image for the whole range



hiphome's dolmo frost will give you a look like this - click on the image for the whole range



spice things up a little and try hiphome's diva grace - click on the image for the whole range



hiphome's zest jet for this shiny shag-a-licous rug - click on the image for the whole range



hiphome's lafayette bassett has more colour but is just as stylish - click on the image for the whole range



hiphome's beautiful coast dunes is definitely a match for this rug but has more texture
- click on the image for the whole range


You can contact us at sales@hiphome.com.au or 1300 hiphome or visit our website www.hiphome.com.au

We borrowed the beautiful photo's and text from http://www.home-designing.com/2010/06/contemporary-living-room-design-ideas and have shown you how to get that look with hiphomes luxurious designer rugs at www.hiphome.com.au
Contemporary luxury gives us the best of both worlds- the finest designing of space, furniture and materials made accessible to you for an opulent yet relaxed lifestyle. This gives every piece in the room its moment of reflection. And what’s better than that?
Well, Presotto Italia is a prominent furniture company in Italy, known for creating lavishly warm and functional living spaces while fulfilling their commitment to Eco-luxury. They make wardrobes, beds, entertainment centers, and accessories using sustainable materials and also provide modular systems that are customizable to any space so that very little goes to waste. Their philosophy is also impressed by environmentally sustainable principles like their material recycling policies and other energy saving practices in their production plants. Needless to say, this sophisticated level of work ethic conducive to both environment and workplace clearly shows in their quality of work and also shows you that eco-friendly furniture can be ’sustainably’ luxurious…