My floor is in. The room is small, about 12x12 not counting the nice small 2 reach in closets. The queen bed takes up a good share of the room, along with my mammoth dresser. I get a lot of bang for my buck with that dresser. New windows are in, new drapes. With all the moving of stuff around to get the windows in throughout the house and the floor put in, I can't find my pretty new duvet cover, that prompted all this fuss! Anyway I decided not to get a larger area rug. I love seeing the floors. Currently I have a nice fluffy bath mat on each side of the bed. They are cheap, easy to pick up to vacuum, and I can wash them periodically. Thank you all for helping with this project. I wished I had a larger bedroom to put in a lovely area rug, but I think my plan, like @Saypoint shows above, is the way to go. Below: can't find my bedding :0 I'm still looking, but in the mean time we sleep comfortably with this summer weight quilt. My bed is a 12" Latex bed that I 'm finding is quit nice. I should have got the 5" foundation instead of the 8", because its a little tall. Each side is a different soft/hard combo. Tonight DH and I are going to swap sides to see if my softer top layer is to his liking, compared to his medium top layer, though this is a different thread in the conversation side of home deco.

Try an area rug that has yellow, gold, brown and gray in it. I love the whimsical rug kulrn posted, but other rugs with some warm colors in it in addition to gray would also be good. You need some warm colors in this room to play off against the gray and give the room some depth and complexity. Art is another good way to achieve this.

I would put an area rug in front of the nightstands, but still under the bed. I think a 8x10 rug would be a fine size if the floors were in really bad shape. That will cover most of the floor without being overwhelming. As far as the rug color/pattern is concerned, I would pick something that's a neutral color with a geometric pattern. I would try to make the bedding the feature of the room to detract attention from the floor.

I did see the tent/fort covers online too. I like them also. Or I could maybe use a cool shower curtain. So it seems like nobody likes the round rug. This makes it hard because it was my husband's first choice. lol. The middle two have the advantage of being padded with memory foam to protect against accidents but they are the smallest and only 5 feet wide. I like the idea of two rugs which I didn't really consider before. I could do a solid color or coordinating pattern underneath just the Loft portion.