Auction Aubusson rug

Hi everyone-hope you are all well.
We've still been really busy here DIY-ing and tidying up. Now that we've finally got the oven and all the wood for the kitchen out of the dining room I put down the Aubusson rug at long last!

I bought the rug at a local auction a while ago and it's been rolled up ever since. Well, I finally unrolled it and got a shock at quite how large it is!
I was going to put it in my bedroom, but I think the colours are better suited to the dining room, so I'm going to swap and put the little Aubusson rug in my bedroom that was previously in my dining room.
The dining room is actually at the front of our house-we haven't got a dining table in it though! I think it was originally meant to be the front room, but we use the back room as our sitting room as it's much bigger and leads onto our conservatory and garden. So the dining room never really gets used much which is a shame as it's so sunny. (We plan to knock through the kitchen and conservatory one day to make a kitchen/dining room/conservatory.)

But lately that's all changed since I unravelled the rug. I've been using it to do yoga in, and it's perfect as there's such a large space to spread out in. We have floorboards everywhere in our house, and doing yoga was a bit uncomfortable and drafty before!
The rug is an antique one made out of wool, and has a few spots here and there, but it all adds to the character. I might try and get them out with Vanish mousse though. It's so large it fills up most of the room and was only £75 if I remember rightly. Quite a bargain when you compare it to these prices!
The last photo shows the view I have of the chandelier when doing yoga on the floor. It looks like a snowflake and the ceiling rose a wedding cake doesn't it? I read in a book that Victorian ceiling roses were especially designed with those holes in them to catch the soot from the coal fires and gas lamps. What a clever idea-I thought they were just for decoration!
By the way just in case anyone is curious, the Yoga DVD's are all by Maya Fiennes. They are cheapest on Amazon, and are based upon Kundalini yoga. I really like the soundtracks (created by Maya set to classical music like 'Clair de lune') and if you buy the 'Detox and De-stress' one you get a free cd of the music- a real bargain for about £8 I think. Mind you Kundalini yoga took me some getting used to, but it's really relaxing.
Enjoy your bank holiday weekend!