I love that rug too. I'd go for it. If the patterns don't match up, you can always return them to the store (even if it's an online purchase). I'm wondering about the canvas backing though. That might make it slippery? Maybe you want to have it professionally installed with a pad? I wonder if a pro would remove the canvas first. My stair runner was installed with staples and a pad. No stair rods. The savings on on not having to buy rods might cover a good portion of the cost to install professionally. There's another link to that rug pattern where you can see more of the design. Here is a link that might be useful: Linden Street Wool Rug

I got it at Macy's but someone here posted that it was cheaper elsewhere. I wish I could remember the thread. Mine was $99. It looks way better than a $99 rug! It's called: Momeni Voyage Serapi Navy 3'11" x 5'7" Area Rug Macy's is sold out. An image search brought it up many places, but I couldn't find the actual rug on most of those sites. It did show up on Home Decorators as their Highcourt for $99 + $22 shipping (my size). ETA: Oh, here it is in all sizes, with a 20% off button. rugsale.com

Neverbedone, you could do a variety of things. You could upholster the stairs only, both runs, and purchase shorter size runner to lay on a thin pad on the landing. I like this option best be use it allows you to pick up the rug no clen the floor underneath. Or, the installers could attach another piece of the runner on the landing. Do the stairs turn 180 degrees or 90 degrees ? If the latter you have a third option. From either direction ( bottom stairs up or top stirs down, depending on who Mose the most sense in your co figuration) let the runner continue onto the landing and stop it short of the next run. Have it bound or have them I still it so the fringed edge if there is one is on that end. Then just start upholstering the next run from under the stair tread.

I only ask this because this is what we do at home. How are you about not wearing shoes upstairs? Once we started doing that our carpets have really benefitted from that. However, I grew up in an area where people routinely removed their outside shoes because it was a grimy industrial area. This drove my parents crazy, they would never leave their bedroom without shoes on (this was a Depression thing, they were basically forced to go barefoot as much as possible in warmer weather so they did not wear out their shoes). They wanted us to wear shoes all the time. Anyway I compromise and keep shoes on on the first floor but don't wear outside shoes upstairs if I can avoid it. I am not trying to turn this into a discussion about which is better. The bedroom carpets room size bound broadloom in an extremely short wool velvet cut pile, woven, not tufted. This was not easy to find, it's from Italy and I got it through the local Stark-Patterson Flynn Martin showroom. Although it is not installed I am putting the same on the steps. The house I grew up in had forty-odd year old velvet cut carpet on one staircase that looked brand new. Another staircase had conventional plush tufted carpet on it that started to look worn on the treads after a few years.