Hi everyone, I laid an area rug over a wall to wall carpet to break up the area in our long living room. I have it flush up against the entertainment center and on the opposite side it goes under the couch and the front legs are sitting on it. On the width side of the carpet I have a love seat with just one leg over the edge of the area rug. I have noticed some bunching in between the couch (side ways) and the love seat. I was assuming this was because the area rug came rolled up. I can't get it to lay flat - it has some ripples in it. I went ahead and moved the love seat leg off of the edge thinking that might be the problem. Can anyone give me some suggestions as to how I can get this section to lay flat? The other end is just fine. I was going to get some flat blocks to lay on it but wonder how long that would take - not sure I would want flat patio blocks laying around in my liv room too long. But, if anyone has experience with this, I would greatly appreciate some advice.

You know those 3M hooks that remove without leaving any damage to the wall? They have them like that only not hooks, but with velcro tabs. They are marketed as picture frame attachers. But I think you could use them without worrying that they would leave a residue on the carpet. You'd put some of them on the carpet and some of them on the runners, and then they snap together. You can separate the velcro tabs when you want to wash the runners. I don't think you'd have to remove them, but I'm not sure how the ones on the runners would do in the washing machine. You could always remove the velcro tabs by pulling the glue strip down and put fresh glue strips on the velcro strips on runners after washing. They are pretty cheap. They sell replacement glue strips separately so you could reuse the velcro parts.

Yes here is the picture, In the same color. no eating or drinking , mainly conversational. So we r having four of these sofas. 2 on each of the facing walls. The cream 3 seater that I already have will go on the back wall. (we also considered keeping the cream sofas in the same spot as they r right now, and just putting two of these chocolate sofas on the opposite wall , or one chocolate 3 seater opposite cream 3 seater, and one chocolate 2 seater opposite the cream seater. My husband says it would look fine but I think they would look odd. ) no coffee tables , if I get space for end table I would, v small ones. Like those mini round ones, but really they won’t serve any purpose. since i m filling each facing walls with two 3-seaters, I may get space for only two chairs.

I did this with a worn out wall to wall carpet in my bedroom because I knew I was remodeling and would be replacing the old carpet with wood flooring. I cleaned the carpet and then put a very large area rug on it and it was fine. Mine was a large Karastan in the classic Kirman pattern. I just finished my remodel and am using the same rug except over the hardwood floors. It worked for me because it looked as though the rug was intentionally used over the carpet. As others have posted, it would depend on exactly what the layout was but I don't see why it wouldn't work. I have seen area rugs being intentionally put over wall to wall in living rooms as part of the design.