Decorating Your Home With Rugs
June 20, 2010 by Abbie Osborne-Wilson
Filed under Home Family
Just like everything else, there are rules when it comes to decorating with rugs. Unless you place wall to wall carpet down on your floors you will need to use rugs of different sizes in order to keep certain areas warm or to look beautiful. Here are a few rules to follow when decorating with rugs:
If you are decorating a large room with a rug you want to make a certain center point somewhere in that room. Focusing on one area will make your room seem more inviting. Try placing a 4′x6′ rug or 5′x7′ rug in an area and place a table on top of it. Guests who sit at the table will keep their feet warm on the rug. You can purchase any shape you want to; round, hexagon, square, or rectangle.
When using rugs in your dining room you will want to measure your table top and then add a minimum of two feet around in order to allow the chairs to be pushed back or forth and not be off the rug. If you do not allow for this extra room your chairs may go off the rug and cause the corners and edges to get caught up in the chair.
However, china cabinets, serving tables or other items of furniture should not rest on the rug.
When using rugs in the bedroom place several small rugs around the bed and in front of the dresser. Avoid placing large rugs in the bedroom that will only go under the bed. This will make the rug hard to clean and possibly infected with moths or insects and you may not even know it.
Be sure to center the rugs that you place down in your bedroom to center a round the furniture. It will make the room seem off balance if you do not center.
Placing a rug in front of a bookshelf or fireplace can mean instant decor. Adding a simple rug can give the area personality and color. Use a light color to brighten up the area if it is not a high traffic area. If it is high traffic you will want to use colors that are dark and won’t show dirt as easy. Oriental rugs are highly recommended when using a rug to enhance an area.
When choosing a rug for your home make sure you carefully consider hand made rugs as well as machine made rugs. A hand made rug will be more dependable and put together more sturdy and may be used in high traffic areas because of the durability.
Rug decorating is easy when you use the right rugs. These cream area rugs work well with all decors.
