| How to Choose an Area Rug Area rugs are pictures for your floor and artwork that you can walk on. They add the finishing touch that can tie all of the furniture in the room together. It is always best to bring the existing fabrics and colors with you when you are shopping for an area rug. A pillow from a chair or sofa, a sample of the wallpaper, a swatch from the draperies and paint samples will help you make your selection. The rug can have the colors in it that compliment the existing furnishings or it can be much darker or lighter than the furnishings thus acting as a contrast. Professional designers recommend that you start by picking out the rug when starting with an empty room. A decorative rug can be optimally placed with all of the furniture on the rug or it can be placed with all of the furniture around the rug. Due to the limited sizes available you will sometimes have the furniture partly on and partly off of the rug. I know of an easy way to find out what is the best size of rug that would fit your needs. I recommend that you take 4 sheets of paper and place them where you would like the corners of the rug to be. Keeping in mind that it not necessarily the size of the room that is important, but it is the space that you want to cover. Measure to the corners of the 4 sheets of paper when you have them placed where you them. This will give the measurements and will have a visualization of the optimal size. The correct size of rug that will be under a dining room table and chairs is determined by first sitting at the table and then getting up and leaving the chair out. By doing this on both ends and both sides of the table and then measuring to the back of the chair legs you will have obtained the necessary size.
The style that you decide upon is strictly a matter of taste. You have to make a choice.
Is it going to a contemporary theme, a traditional them, lodge, southwest, eclectic, country floral, braided or transitional?
What ever rug you pick out make sure that you feel good about your selection. |