The pictures show two different kinds of settings: first the traditional Turkish/Anatolian one, where woollen kilims cover the entire wooden floor and provide a good and decorative isolation against cold air coming from below. Moreover, kilims and other flat-woven rugs are used as pillows and coverings for sofas. This extensive use of rugs makes that all individual entering these rooms, has to remove his/her outdoor footwear and leave it in the corridor.
The other kind of setting is the European one: kilims used as pieces of furniture, with decorative intentions more than practical; this fashion entered Turkish urban culture in the second half of the 20th century (when the kilims were ‘discovered’ as pieces of popular art), and adds to the ‘couleur locale’ of today’s so-called ‘charme hotels’.