Decorate With Rugs
Give your unfurnished floors & undraped walls a quick and fresh makeover!
A rug may be considered as an accessory & helps in the makeover of the boring space into an attractive one. For a room that lacks inflammation, adding a rug will be the best answer. You might even say rugs complete a room by placing them all in different pieces together. A rug can be a centerpiece of a room which adds warmth and help stratum of a room’s decor.
A rug can set a tone and comfort factor to your living space with different patterns, prints and materials. The rugs in the indoor area add a luxurious comfort and eclectic style to the home decor.
There are several different ways, but we will start with some of them:
Perfect Sizing
Rugs are easier to maintain than carpet and are available in all sizes of the room. If you are struck with a long, narrow living or a small study room, rugs come handy. They come in all shapes and sizes. Always choose the rug which is slightly smaller than the area covered by your furniture’s. Don’t cover the whole floor, make sure that you leave some of the flooring showings. For example: – In dining rooms, you can use a rectangular rug with a long table, a round rug with a round table and a hexagonal rug with a square table and more which suits & styles your house differently.
Bold Patterns
A good rug can be the main focus point of your room. It breaks out, your comfort zone for home decor and adds a bliss of colors with bold and crazy patterns. A white wall room with light colored furniture can be just renovated in a while by adding a zebra pattern rug on the floor.
Using a rug can visually tranquilize your room or can turn up the loudness as needed. Colorless walls and furnishings can be allowed with a vibrant rug to take the center stage where as Fancy walls and modeled furnishings goes with some gloomy rugs.
Colorful Additions
Are you afraid of colors? Be daring to choose the colors of rugs. It is helpful in making the decision before purchasing any furniture. On the other hand, if you have already placed the furniture, you can use the rug to mix in your existing colors.
Rug selections are the basis which adds to your color scheme & furniture of the room. Change out rugs and pillows to update a room according to the seasons or as a way to follow new color trends.
Layered Effect
Try something heroic which adds to a new trend – layering rugs. Layering can be a crazy way to bring in more colors with multiple textures to your room. Considering layering of two rugs side by side for long and narrow rooms, could be great fun as well as it will modify your room to the stylish of all.
Bonus Tip
Use a rug for separate and defined areas, such as dining areas, living room and traffic areas as like lobby. Same sized rugs can cut your room in half visible to others. Always use a Rug-liner to keep your rug from slipping. The rug liner should be appropriate according to your floor & rug type. Using a rug as a wall hanging adds another way to create a central point of your room.
Don’t assume that a rug has to be only in a specific shape – rectangle. Have a close look of furniture’s shape and try figuring out what shape would seem best, and then go with a square or oval shape or others available differently.