Rug Cottage

Friday, April 19, 2013

Farmhouse Pantry Goods... at The Rug Cottage

Friday, April 12, 2013

Come Gather at The Garden... At The Rug Cottage

Come Gather at the Garden at The Rug Cottage.... We have something for gardener, watering cans, twig balls, jute rugs, soy candles, garden journals, wire baskets, porch lamps, country garden decor, antique seed packets.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Spring is Slow Getting Here to Iowa, so We'll Bring it to YOU!!

Spring Flowers at The Dallas Arboretum...

Beautiful!! Hopefully Iowa will get warmer weather, so we can show off our beautiful flowers.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Welcome to Our Porch... at The Rug Cottage

Welcome to Our Porch.. At The Rug Cottage....we have a wonderful front porch, but it's been a little cool lately, so we decorated our inside out.. Our porch decor is inside where you can shop in the warmth.

Cider Barn in a great new color of Jute Rugs that would be an excellent choice for your porch. We have all sizes in oval and rectangle, as well as place mats, stair treads, trivets, runners and coasters.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Okay,... so last year the temperature was 80 degrees for St. Patrick's Day... it's still a beautiful St Patrick's Day at The Rug Cottage.

Come visit our store during our Regular Hours of Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 4 pm

Enjoy your St Patrick's Day

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Live Life Joyfully...

I need reminding of this daily, especially during the Month of March.... I don't know, but March is a hard month for me... so close to spring, but yet so winter....

The Rug Cottage is full of wonderful things full of color and charm to make your home a warm and cozy refuge from the dark and dreary outside.

Live Life Joyfully... with beautiful things from The Rug Cottage.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Farmhouse Country Kitchen Finds at The Rug Cottage

Come to the Rug Cottage and see all the wonderful Farmhouse Country Decorating items...

Fun signs, country salt and pepper sets

Country Quilts, Pottery, Fruit Jars, Crocks

Country Prints

Jute Coasters, Placemats, Runner, Rugs

Vintage Decorating Accessories

Mary Jane's Farm Magazines!!! Love This Magazine!!!!

Great New Colors..... We love this one... Cider Barn

Try a great Soy Candle.... Farmhouse, Grandma's Kitchen, Honey Cornbread, ..etc.

History of The Rug Cottage & Barntiques

Rug Cottage & Barntiques Antique Mall
Welcome to The Rug Cottage & Barntiques Antique Mall Blog site.
I consider myself truly blessed to have this opportunity to share with you my story of how The Rug Cottage came to be.

My sweetheart of almost 25 years (John) and I purchased an acreage out side of Iowa City. It sits on one of highest points in Johnson county with a Million Dollar view.

After several years we restored the old Victorian house on the property. I worked as a Microbiologist for the University of Iowa and my husband John had his rental propery and painting business at the time.

After the death of our first child due to a heart condition, I decided to be a stay at home mom when our son Nicholas was born in 1990. We were blessed again in 1992 when our daughter Jessica was born. We were blessed again years later with 2 more sons, Nathan and Nolan.

I loved decorating our old Victorian house and being home with my 2 wonderful babies. Growing up my Grandmother had hooked rugs in her Parlor. I wanted that look for our newly added family room and I set out on the adventure of finding that style of rug.

To my surprise it wasn't that easy. I looked everywhere. Rugs were mainly sold in carpet and furnture stores at the time and if you didn't have what they offered on the rack, you were out of luck.

Finally after much searching I did find they style of rugs I was looking for, but now one in area sold them. I tried to convince the company that I could sell their rugs and they gave me a shot.

John fixed up an old grainery shed on our acreage and The Rug Cottage was born. We opened our door in April of 1993 with a few rugs, a few gift items and a hope that someone would stop by now and then. Our crudely hand painted sign on the back of the building must have been noticed by tourists on their way to Kalona, because the next thing we knew we had a thriving little business.

Since then we've added on the the little shed 3 times to make a much larger store and a few years ago we added Barntiques Antique Mall in our old barn.. We have become know for our wonderful friendly atmosphere and our great selection of unique merhcandise.