Rumpled Rugkins?

We have a gorgeous area rug that we received for our Wedding in August. This rug is amazing. Chocolate, sage, burnt orange, creamy goodness in rug form. It also has this insane personality of its own. It has huge wrinkles in it that refuse to budge. I called my grandmother (a former home economics / english / science / etc. teacher), who is my Guru of all things domestic. 

Here is her advice for beating a rug into submission:

1. Get a spray bottle of water. (I used my steamer vacuum).

2. Dampen the rug. Don't soak it, especially if the floor underneath is another carpet or hardwood.       Dampening will allow the wrinkles to relax and the rug to flatten out.

3. Use very small finishing nails to tack down the corners on one end of the rug and pull the rest of the rug taught.

4. Holding the rug taught, have someone tack down the other corners.

5. Allow the rug to dry before moving any furniture back into place!!

This is really a two person job. My husband steamed the rug, and I tugged on the wrinkles. He lightly tacked the corners, and I held the rug taught.

Wrinkles are gone!!

I didn't take a before picture of the rug, but here it is right after we got done: