Picture a pale oak kitchen with black handles and a few terracotta pots on the windowsill. A beige runner with a check pattern sits well in a room like that, because the colour stays quiet next to strong materials. This one is a hallway runner, but it is just as happy in front of a kitchen worktop.

• Pile: 100% polypropylene on a jute back
• Machine-woven in Turkey
• Flat weave with a check motif
• Runner shape, suitable for indoors and outdoors

Because the surface is flat woven, chairs can be moved back and forth easily. That makes the beige check useful as a kitchen runner as well as a way to mark out a path down a narrow hall. It can go on a heated floor, and you can also take it out to the terrace, as the synthetic fibre takes up almost no water.

Spills on the beige Boho runner

Polypropylene takes in hardly any liquid, so a spill stays on top for a while and you can blot it away. After that, a little mild washing-up liquid in water does the rest, and our rug care tips go through it step by step. Keep hot pans and irons well away, as this fibre does not like heat. A brush vacuum is fine on the flat surface, and a brush lifts any pressed-down spots.