New Rug

I didn't capture very well the amount of grime and detritus that builds up on the entryway floors during the rainy season, but trust me, there is a lot.
When it is wet outside the first 10 feet of our living room gets all the dirt, leaf debris and much from our shoes. I can scrub it, but I don't often enough and it's starting to become ground in.

Enter: the long rug designed to catch what the floor shouldn't.

It has about the same weave as the cats' catch scratcher, so they are thrilled that I've provided a very large horizontal surface cat scratcher.

Each time they scratch I remind them it is a rug, not something for their claws. They don't really care to listen to me. But the floors are staying clean.