Rugs Gallore

Rugs Gallore is based at 520 Gulmohar Avenue, right on Raj Bhavan Road. It’s a busy area with a lot of cars going by all day long. We have been in this building for quite a while. The name sounds a bit more grand than the place actually is. In reality, it’s just a large room filled with piles and piles of rugs. We have everything from small mats for the bathroom to large rugs that would cover a whole bedroom. My cousin and I handle the daily tasks. We spend a lot of time just moving piles from one side of the room to the other to find specific patterns. The dust can get a bit much, so we keep the fans going all the time. Being on Raj Bhavan Road means we get a lot of people stopping in who are just passing through the area. They usually look a bit overwhelmed by how much stuff we have shoved in here. We don't have a computer system to track everything, so we just rely on our memory and a handwritten notebook. It’s an old-fashioned way of doing things, but it works for us. The evening traffic is the worst part of the day, so we often stay a bit later just to let the roads clear out. We don't have any big advertisements. People just see our sign on the avenue and come in to see what we’ve got. We try to keep things simple and just focus on the inventory.