Help me Choose a Rug to tie it all in!
Hi/ Hola
5 years ago
Hey Houzzers,
I’m in the early stages of furnishing my family room in my new home. I like warm traditional pieces with some modern touches. Here are some elements I would like to include in my Living Room space. Not quite sure if they go well together though... If they do, please help me pick out a rug to tie it all in please.
-just purchased the sofa and coffee table
-I own the lamp, had it for years and would like to include it.
-photograph is something I would like to enlarge, print and include in the room
Do theses pieces go well together?
What color area rug would work? I keep gravitating toward medallion-type rugs but I’m not sure if it will clash with the lamp I want to include here since it’s a completely different style? Correct me if I’m wrong please.
ALL suggestions welcome. Please be honest! Please offer alternatives if need be.
I’m in the early stages of furnishing my family room in my new home. I like warm traditional pieces with some modern touches. Here are some elements I would like to include in my Living Room space. Not quite sure if they go well together though... If they do, please help me pick out a rug to tie it all in please.
-just purchased the sofa and coffee table
-I own the lamp, had it for years and would like to include it.
-photograph is something I would like to enlarge, print and include in the room
Do theses pieces go well together?
What color area rug would work? I keep gravitating toward medallion-type rugs but I’m not sure if it will clash with the lamp I want to include here since it’s a completely different style? Correct me if I’m wrong please.
ALL suggestions welcome. Please be honest! Please offer alternatives if need be.
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5 years agoHi/ Hola
5 years agoWall color and flooring. Sofa color is closer to this image here than on the previous image.
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Hi/ Hola
5 years agoUser
5 years agoOh wow! Somewhere I have saved a photo of Cusco that looks very similar to yours, with the cathedral in the background! This isn't it, but gives you an idea of why I instantly thought "Cusco"! :-)
I totally understand about the budget. I don't think the medallion clashes with your lamp at all though; in fact, you seem to love color and pattern, and I think with the choices you've already made, you can absolutely layer the room in pattern to create a warm, interesting, eclectic space. Anyway, if I were finishing the room, I'd keep looking for a rug along the lines of the one I posted. You may be able to find a suitable polypropylene in the price range you're looking at.Hi/ Hola
5 years agoUser
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoAt first I envisioned rust/aqua in your room, but with your sunny yellows and deep blues, you could do something like this:
$229 for an 8x10.https://esalerugs.com/blue-8x10-georgetown-area-rug-33143879
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5 years agoOr this - same pattern, different coloration.
https://esalerugs.com/red-8x10-georgetown-area-rug-33143834
Hi/ Hola
5 years agoUser
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHi/ Hola
5 years agoHi/ Hola
5 years agoUpdate: so I finally got a rug that I liked for my living room! I’m loving the vibrant colors! However, I’m not sure if it goes with my sofas! Whaaaa!
Initially, When I first saw my sofas at the furniture store, the color seemed to lean towards ivory/ beige. “Oatmeal” color it said online.
Now that I have them in my home, they are nothing but that tone but more of a gray color. Don’t you agree? Could it be lighting?
Im worried it doesn’t go since there’s not a speck of grey in the rug. I don’t know what to do. Live with it? Replace the rug?
Here are usually of the sofa at the furniture store and the sofa with my rug.
Hi/ Hola
5 years agoHere are more images if sofa in my space. I’ll get some more of sofa and rug together.
This is in natural light.
Gcubed
5 years ago
J J
5 years agoHi/ Hola
5 years agoGcubed
5 years agoAnne Duke
5 years agoHi/ Hola
5 years agoHi/ Hola
5 years agoHi/ Hola
5 years agoI’m embarrassed to upload this but it’s the only image I have with sofas and rug :(
I’ll be there this weekend, I promise to take pictures of different angles in natural light
Kathryn P
5 years agoI'd really go for it with color to compliment the lamp (you'd need to lose the pillows). A few options from rugsusa.com:
https://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/rugs-usa-tribal-medallion/Rust/200KHMC04A-P.html
https://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/rugs-usa-tribal-medallion/Rust/200KHMC04A-P.html
https://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/rugs-usa-florid-tribal-medallion-printed/Rust/200HCMY01A-P.html
https://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/rugs-usa-diamond-drops/Multi/200KKCB16A-P.htmlHi/ Hola
5 years agoKathryn P
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHi/ Hola
5 years agoSo I checked their website, and several others and it seems they have it only in this color called Taupe. I could have sworn it it said Oatmeal... now this is all they have, taupe. Does it look like a taupe to ya’ll? Either way, we’re keeping the sofas... it’ll be easier to change out the rug if need be.
Here’s the image of the sofa without the pillows and a closeup on the blues on the rug. As you can tell it has various blues.
Hi/ Hola
4 years agoAlright.... I’m replacing my rug.
Which one do you think will compliment the heather gray sofas? Thanks!
Anne Duke
4 years ago
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