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Enhancing Your Living Room With a Contemporary Rug – Our Top 3 Tips!
The living room is the beating heart of your home! It is a higher-traffic area with many purposes – whether it’s your prime place to entertain guests, your family’s play area or a hub for your evening relaxation, it’s important that the aesthetic and feel of your living room is just right.
A living room rug is the ideal addition to enhance your space. Wool rugs are perfect for living rooms due to their numerous benefits. They absorb sound and therefore improve acoustics, keep you warm in the winter and can even help to keep you cool in the summer! Adding a modern area rug to your living room is a great idea – a rug can add a splash of colour and excitement to your space, making a real statement, and can also bring the elements of your room together. They also assist in adding texture and creating a conversational, cosy area to act as the focal point of your home.
Deciding on a living room rug is an important choice, especially as the living room is such a key area of your home! Let us help you with some of our top tips to ensure you choose the perfect wool area rug to enhance your space.
Tip 1: Choosing The Right Size Living Room Rug
Large, medium or small? Choosing the right size for your new area rug is key. Do you want your rug to be the focal point of the room and make a statement? Would you prefer it to frame your furniture and create a conversational area? Or, would you simply like it to accentuate certain pieces of furniture or parts of your space? These questions are important – once you have decided on the purpose of your living room area rug, you can decide which size fits best!
Large rugs are great for filling smaller living rooms or acting as statement pieces in large rooms. The bigger, the better! Large area rugs really add a ‘wow’ factor, especially if you are incorporating a vibrant contemporary rug – bold colours stand out in larger rugs and provide an incredible focal point. Aside from aesthetic purposes, large rugs are also practical – large area rugs provide the highest level of sound absorption, which is helpful if you know your living room will often be filled with voices and conversations!
Our After Albers Cornflower Rug is a great example of a large wool rug which can enhance a living room – its bold colours and interesting shapes and layers provide a conversational aspect and ensure that it stands out in any living space.
If a large rug feels too big for your purposes, consider dotting one or more small area rugs around your living room. Small wool rugs can accentuate certain pieces of furniture or accessories. Round rugs such as the Bubbles Rug work well in smaller sizes to help add a pop of colour to parts of your living room and help bolster your interior style– for example, underneath armchairs or coffee tables or by an interesting piece of art.
Tip 2: Choosing The Right Colour Living Room Rug
The colour of your new designer rug should be carefully considered. A designer wool rug is a piece of art for your floor, and therefore it is of utmost importance that it complements your personal styling choices and living room aesthetics.
If your interiors are neutral or minimalist, choose a brightly coloured rug to add a splash of colour and vibrancy! A colorful area rug such as the Rainbow Rug is a great choice to provide a bold contrast to neutral interiors and make a real statement in your living room. A modern rug is a conversational piece for your space – and is sure to excite your guests!
If you’re looking to stick to a harmonious and minimalist colour scheme, our collection of vibrant contemporary rugs features a number of neutral shades, perfect for curating a cosy and calming living room space. Grey area rugs such as our Jellybean Rug Coconut and Rothko-esque Grey provide a soft and luxurious edge to any living room.
Choosing the right colour rug can also provide balanced energy in your living space utilising the principles of Feng Shui. Each colour corresponds to an element which contributes to the balancing of energies in your space. For example, a blue area rug such as the Aqua Teal Sea attracts the ‘water element’, providing a sense of calm and tranquillity. On the other hand, a red wool rug such as the Deep Sunset activates the ‘fire element’ and brings passion and wealth to your living room.
Learn more about the ancient art of Feng Shui and the importance of choosing the right colour rug here!
Tip 3: Choosing The Right Shape Living Room Rug
Living room rugs come in plenty of shapes, so it is important to consider this when choosing your new rug. Consider your room aesthetic and any furniture you are trying to pair your rug with such as a sofa or coffee table – is your living room dominated by straight edges, or soft curves?
Rectangular area rugs complement the straight edges found in linear living room furniture, such as square coffee tables and angular sofas. Adding a rectangular rug here pulls the furniture into a cosy, conversation area. Rugs such as the Rothko-Esque Rug are great to keep that rectangular shape but add something a little different with their bright colours and angular, slightly irregular edges.
Round rugs add softness and curves to contrast linear-edged furniture. They also complement modern interiors, which are often dominated by curved and rounded edges. Round area rugs such as the Circle-ish Rug and the Bubbles Rug add a pop of colour to modern and traditional living rooms alike and enhance the room giving a comfortable and cosy atmosphere – think hygge!
Irregular rugs are perfect for adding interest and excitement to a living room. Asymmetrical rug shapes can be unique, conversational pieces which create a vibrant statement in your living room. The Sonya Winner rug collection is characterised by its irregular shaped rugs. Choose an irregular area rug such as our award-winning After Matisse design, or the colourful Wave Rug, both bound to brighten up and enhance any living room!
We hope these tips will help you choose the perfect living room rug!
If you are still not sure which rug would be the best fit for you, why not take advantage of our FREE visualisation service? We can help you see what our vibrant contemporary rugs will look like in your home before you purchase by creating bespoke digital visuals. All you need to do is click the ‘visualise this rug in your room’ button on the product page of the rug you’d like to visualise, attach some photos of your space and we will respond with your visualisations within two working days!
Do take a look at images of how our clients have styled our unique designer rugs in their living rooms on our testimonials page.
