Please help with area rug and floor plan layout
Please let me know your thoughts on the pictured area rug layout. I’m finding it hard to figure out how to combine area rugs in this slightly irregular room.
The rendering of the room, a home office, is to scale. The room basically measures 11.5’ wide x 14’ deep, but a fireplace on one side creates a slight L shape. (Each square of the grid paper represents about 6”.)
A goal is to protect the floor under the desk chairs. Two desks face one another as shown, and the little squares/diamonds represent the desk chairs. 3’x5’ rugs are not big enough to fully protect under each chair, so 4’x6’ rugs are shown. There would be about a 1’ gap between the two 4’x6’ area rugs under the desks, as shown. I’m considering synthiteic jute (Ruggable re-jute) for those. The larger rug is 6’x9’ and leaves about 15” on either side of the rug as you enter the room, and would layer over part of the jute rugs.
Can someone who knows about area rug layout and layering area rugs please let me know if this is a good layout, or if there’s something else I should be doing? I’m finding it challenging to come up with a plan using standard sized rugs!
Thank you!
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last yearThank you. Yes, I love the idea of rugs adding texture to the room and helping with sound. I‘m not familiar with carpet tile but will take a look. Here are two more mock-ups, this time with a 5’x7’ Persian style rug, shown both horizontally and vertically in that area of the room. Using 5’x7’
would eliminate layering. I thought the 6’x9’ might pull the room together better, but maybe the 5’x7’ is better?
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last yearI'm not sure that the back to back desk arrangement is going to be as functional as considering either a desk on either side of the back area or placing both desks side by side on the long wall in the back of the room. Either of the two arrangements would allow for the desk chairs to be solidly planted on a larger 6x 9 area rug placed horizontally in the space. Then a matching either 3 x5 or 4 x 6 rug placed vertically would compliment the larger rug so your whole space would read as one room.
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last yearHere are a few more mock-ups:
(1) each desk facing side wall - a concern here is that the area rug will not cover the whole under desk foot area.
(2) desks facing back wall, right next to each other - the desks here maybe closer than we want the desks to be when two people are working at the sane time.
(3) desks facing back wall with space between the desks - this may have potential.
The rug under the desks is 6’x9’. Photo (1) and (3) show a 4’x6’ rug at the room entrance, (2) shows a 5’x7’. If I were to use two rugs, I’d use two of the same rug (not different patterns). Of all possibilities considered, any votes as to which configurations seem most functional and attractive?
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