5 Savvy Tips For Decorating With Rugs
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- 13 Sep 2022
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When furnishing a home, the rug is often treated as a throwaway detail not carefully factored into the greater design plan.
When furnishing a home, the rug is often treated as a throwaway detail not carefully factored into the greater design plan. You've browsed couches, chairs, coffee tables, and TV stands. But the rug is often left for last. In the interest of design cohesion, this is a mistake. The wrong rug can make a room feel unnerving. And a missing rug can make a room feel incomplete. In fact, Real Simple points out that forgetting a rug is one of the main design mistakes homeowners make with spacious floor plans.
It is helpful to treat the rug as the palette on which you build the room around. With so many different textures, colors, and styles, rugs can create drama, contrast, and comfort. If a room is a painting, treat your rug selection as the landscape within which you fill your foreground. Now, we are going to dive into five tips for nailing this process and taking your home to the next level.
1. Measure the room
In addition to taking measurements for your furniture dimensions, it can be helpful to take rug measurements before you buy any furniture. By doing this, a clear sense of scale and clarity can be defined by how the rug will fit in the room. Expansive rugs can increase the perceived size of a room. When using a rug as a palette for a given room, this greater exposure allows the eye to soak up the rug's relationship to the other pieces of furniture with even greater detail. Read More...
