Marc Cory · Oct 31st 2026How a custom rug is made at Interiors, from sketch to install
Every custom rug that leaves Interiors starts the same way: a designer sends us something. Sometimes it is a drawing on a scrap of paper with the room's measure
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Projects, process and what designers are specifying
Notes from the showroom for the trade: finished rooms with their designers credited, how custom work gets made, and what we are sampling this season.
Marc Cory · Oct 31st 2026
Marc Cory · Oct 27th 2026Anatomy of a curved stair runner
A curved stair is where a runner earns its keep and where most of them go wrong. The pattern has to turn with the stair, the pad has to stay thin enough that th
Marc Cory · Oct 23rd 2026What designers are specifying now: wall-to-wall is back
For twenty years the brief was hardwood everywhere and a rug on top. The sample requests we are filling this season say something different: wall-to-wall wool i
Marc Cory · Oct 19th 2026Inside the sample library: how we pull 28 mills before you arrive
The showroom at the Laguna Design Center holds the sample library for 38 mills and brands: rolled rug samples on the wall, broadloom on the hanging racks, a tab
Marc Cory · Oct 15th 2026Animal print, the designer's neutral
Ask a designer who has specified a leopard stair runner why it works and the answer is usually the same: it is a neutral. The colors are the colors of a wool ca
Marc Cory · Oct 11th 2026Rebuilt for the trade: the new Interiors Fine Flooring
Interiors Fine Flooring has been a to-the-trade carpet and custom rug showroom in the Laguna Design Center since 2002. The site you are reading is new, and it w