Large Area Rug Placement Tips
You feel like there’s something missing in your room. You don’t know what it is, but it doesn’t feel complete. You think what you need is an area rug, and you just might be right. But there’s plenty to consider before you get to buying one.
Placement is key to get the most out of area rugs. The best place to put an area rug is in a dining room, a master bedroom, or a living area, whether it’s open plan, or a living/family room. As they usually cover most of the floorspace in a room, it’s important to optimize placement. Here are some tips to help with this.
When you place an area rug in your bedroom (or one of your children’s for that matter), there is no need for it to be centered, in fact sometimes putting them in specifically to break up the room into spaces can be quite effective.
In a dining room, usually the best place to put a rug of adequate size is beneath the dining table and accompanying chairs. It needs to allow not only for the chairs to be placed on the rug when pushed beneath the table, but when pulled back and sat on as well.
Usually one would place area rugs of a large size in the open space in the middle of a room, and this is especially important when the room has hardwood floors, ensuring that the spacing around it is consistently even.
If there are doors to consider, you need be sure there is enough clearance beneath the door (less usual), or there is room for the door to swing open freely. It would be a tragedy to purchase a rug, only to discover that major alterations to one or more doors are in order.
If you are putting the rug in a living space, it is standard to put it so that the seating, whether they be sofas, couches, single seater lounges or other types of seating all have their front legs on the rug. This enables a guest to be seated and arise without touching the hard flooring beneath the area rug. You can place all four legs of seating on the rug, but this is not as frequent. Often the addition of a coffee table in the middle of a large area rug will add the finishing touches to a living space which contains an Area Rug.
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