Awesome Carpets

Turn your living room, man cave, or any room into a game room with these fun retro rugs from Dreaming Alien. They come in vibrant geometric patterns that look like they came out of a 1980s video arcade – minus the cigarette burns. Our faves are the Galactic March and Earth Bound styles. They’re available in sizes from 24″ x 36″ to 96″ x 120″.

There’s a whole YouTube sub-genre of carpet-cleaning videos. This one from Change Cleaning Services is quite satisfying. Like most of these videos, it starts with a rug so caked with mud that we assume they did it themselves. After saturating it with water and cleaning foam, then scrubbing it endlessly, two cartoon characters are revealed. Best watched at 2x speed.

It may not look like much, but this officially licensed Star Wars Millennium Falcon rug is sure to delight fans of the franchise. It measures 79″x 104″ and has a rubber grip at the bottom to hold it in place. A smaller version is also available.

Heeeere’s an expensive way to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Film and Furniture offers an officially licensed rug that bears the iconic pattern of the Overlook Hotel’s carpet. The rug measures about 95″x 67″. It’s also available as a runner.

They may not be as thought-provoking as Antonio Santin’s work, but Jason Seife’s take on realistic carpet paintings are no less impressive. Not limited by history or fabric, Seife often takes liberties in his choice of colors and canvas.

Azerbaijan artist Faig Ahmed combines the Middle Eastern style of carpet making with urban art and digital media, creating pieces that look like they’re just altered images but are actually purely embroidered.

King of Sweden sells large rugs made of the leather and fabric labels from discarded jeans. The labels are stitched together over a sheet of cotton. If you have enough old jeans lying around you could try this idea yourself.

David Hanauer’s WorldWide Carpets are made out of repeating patterns of the bird’s eye view screenshots from Google Earth. Size and patterns can be customized. Price available upon request.