There are pluses and minuses. I have slept in '80s brass beds, 1880s brass beds, and a more modern wrought iron bed. Here are some things to think about. - Metal beds originally became popular as a precaution against bedbugs. Bedbugs hide in wood furniture, so if you get an infestation simply replacing the mattress won't suffice. For most of my life, bedbugs were a quaint old affliction remembered only in good-night sayings. However, they are now back in a big way. If you travel at all, your luggage can carry bedbugs from a hotel (even a very nice hotel) right back to your own bed. If so, you may have to treat or replace the mattress but at least your bed will be easy to sanitize. - You need to plan out where your head goes. Banging your skull on metal is unpleasant. That means you need good-sized pillows for sleeping and extra fluffage for reading. And yes, pillows do have a tendency to slip behind the bed. - I found it pleasant to touch the cool metal with my hands when I was warm in bed. It sounds like nothing, but it actually made a difference in comfort . - By all means get a well-made bed if you go metal. Cheap metal beds flex and move and bend even more than cheap wooden ones. A poorly made bed will make you feel like you are sleeping in a lifeboat on open seas.

As I usually don't have money for the rugs I love(and I must absolutely love it and consider it longest-living, most indestructible option, which yes, most often would be hand knotted wool)-I plainly don't have them. Lol. (I do have a nice rug in a guest bath because it's 3 by 5 thus affordable. actually was very affordable. ecarpetgallery I think I also have a liitle vinyl floor cloth I keep by the backyard door..very easy to clean, and can be put away if I don't feel like looking at at. But I found a nice one that I'm usually okay with looking at. I like patterns, in general. There's also an old shag rug in my DS's room-I didn't buy it but we bought something on Craigslist several years ago-it was a patio set-and when we looked at it it was placed on a rug. This green shag, you know. The seller kindly agreed to bring the set to us as we didn't have a car big enough for that(almost an hour drive from us btw) and we were very surprised when he brought a rug as well. He interpreted us buying a set as wanting everything exactly as we saw it..)) The last rug I really loved-I saw a couple days ago. I'm like "wow! now that would be a fine choice for the living room" It's eBay btw or something..I always look at second hand. Then I stare up to see the price It was reduced to 22 K (22 thousand) dollars by a kind seller... But most rugs I'm really into, they somehow usually fall in the range 3-10 K..)) needless to say I either don't have that kind of money-or if I do there are usually more time-pressing/noble causes to spend it that always come up. There are many, many rugs I truly like. It's just not enough for a commitment. I get attached to things and I don't like switching stuff. Thus I tend to buy only things that speak to me tremendously (with the exception of very functional things) I also know that it'd be hard for me to clean it myself, and my dear cleaning ladies that help me (they come once in two weeks) will immediately adjust how much they take. I also know I can't afford any tripping hazards so no kilims or anything like that. I can love it all I want..but I need rugs that move the least. I also need my DH to love it. I can buy something for 500$ without telling him-and then he'll see it and like it. I can't and won't spend thousands without consulting him. Consulting with him will go like that: -it's very expensive. we don't need it. don't you like our bare floors? are you sure you like it? -yes I'm sure (explanation why) -this green is a bit (gesturing)..I don't know -but it's not green, dear..it's purple -purple? no, it's green -no dear, there is some green, but this color you're pointing at, is actually purple -umm..I'm not sure you're right. To me seems like a green. Just a bit different green, you know. So, are you definitely sure you like it? There's lot things to consider. -I know dear, I've been considering them for years, you know it's been many years since I've been looking at rugs. -Right, right. I know you're thoughtful when choosing. But it's still a lot things to consider. And I like our bare floors just fine. And this green..the one you say that's purple, even though I can't see its purpleness..are you absolutely sure you like it? No lol, at this point of conversation I'm absolutely sure only in one thing: I'm very tired. Very tired indeed. In short. I guess it depends on how much an individual feel he must/wants to have a rug, to feel that room is to his taste. His budget. And things he personally has to consider, taking his-not anybody eles's-lifestyle and all sorts of possible concerns into account. I'm fine with unfinishedness of things, so to say. So I can bear not having a rug much more easily than many others. The more moveable and lighter in weight a thing will be, the more chance I'll splurge on it though. Because constant moving gave me a mindset of somebody who can't feel she finally arrived. In my mind-sadly-I'm always moving, whether I want to or not. So books and art and throws etc, I can take them with me. Thus it's easier for me to buy them as I fall in love with them (obviously I still make myself wait and think. When I can. Lol). Whatever will be harder to move -big art, lights, furniture, curtains-I will hunt for months, years maybe. A large rug? I never had one yet. Now. I fully understand it was a very long unhelpful post. Not much opinion, not much advice; plenty of oversharing..:)

$1000 for that size does not buy you much in the way of quality, so If you find something you like for less, I don't think it will make much difference. If you go with a synthetic instead of wool (some look quite nice), that will save some $, too. (Oh, I see it is on sale, so was more expensive to begin with, but still not a lot of $$ for that size rug). Wayfair has quite a few with similar colors: wayfair

Thank you! Yes, that was my M bedroom. We have now moved into a rental home while building. I had just changed the bedding and put up the curtains (after 14 years, the room needed a change.) The rug and bench don't go well with the new bedding. In the new house, I will recover the bench, along with two club chairs, and I have a neutral sea grass type rug (from the old living room) that will go in the M bedroom. I will once again use the Ikea curtains. I have my new bed assemble packed away in a box so it will still be fresh in the new house. Using the old bedding now. :)