Personalized Welcome Mat
When guests come over to your house, your front door is the first thing that they see. You’ll start things off right and give them a good first impression if you lay out an eye-catching personalized welcome mat that says who lives here and says it with attractive color combinations and graceful lettering.
Buying a personalized welcome mat is in a lot of ways like buying any other doormat. Most of the same rules apply. First, it needs to be a good fit with your front door. Bring a photo of the doorway with you when you go shopping so you can compare the colors of doorway and doormats side by side.
But bear in mind that a personalized welcome mat is more decorative than most, so you’ll have more coloring and detailing on it to guard against fading and staining. Think about how much exposure your mat might have to rain, snow, and harsh weather in general. If you’ve got the good luck of having a steep overhang above your doorway, then you’ll be fine. The overhang will keep your mat covered. The same goes for if you live in an apartment and your door opens to an interior hallway.
If you’ve got no such covering, then you might consider playing it safe and sticking with a simpler mat for outside. You can always pick out a decorative one for inside your home. But if your heart is sold on adorning your outer doorway, weather regardless, then choose a personalized mat made of durable, weather-resistant materials. Polypropylene, which is a plastic that imitates natural fabrics, is one such material choice.
That polypropylene mat will stand up to the elements even better if its top layer is tightly woven. That means that any dirt will get trapped underneath, and the mat will stay looking fairly clean.
Rubber mats are another weather-resistant bet. They’re especially desirable if your neighborhood happens to get a lot of rain. Rubber doesn’t get as muddy as fabric, and it’s much less prone to fade from moisture.
Maybe your area gets a lot of snow and ice. In that case, a mat with raised patterns along their borders will be a better bet. A raised border traps moisture before it has a chance to soak the mat. No matter what type of fabric or material composes the mat, it will stay that much drier and need that much less maintenance.
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