How to Choose the Right Rug for your Home

 

by Jen Stanbrook

Jen Stanbrook is a full-time interiors and homes blogger, writing the award-winning blog, Love Chic Living. With an insatiable passion for all things interior design-related, she focuses on style and design for a family home, inspiring her readers with achievable looks and aspirational ideas.

The Right Rug Can Transform a Room!

The right rug can transform a room from dreary to delightful. All you need is a little help choosing one. Here, at Rugs Direct, we aim to simplify the whole process and ensure you have fun picking your rug. We know that a rug adds the perfect level of comfort and style, as well as provides the ideal finishing touch to your interior décor.

So, let’s look at some of the most important factors you’ll need to consider when choosing your new rug.

The Main Purpose

Firstly, you’ll want to think about the purpose of your rug.

Is it to protect a carpet, to add warmth to a colder floor, to give some colour to the room, or for a soft texture under your feet?

Once you’re clear on why you want the rug you can start to think about the qualities that meet your needs.

Protecting a carpet means you’ll want a larger sized rug. Warming up wooden floors might mean softness but neutral colours.

Adding some colour, well that speaks for itself. And including some comforting textures will direct you to our softer piles and weaves.

Consider the Room

Your choice of rug will often be determined by where it will live. Let’s take some of the main living spaces and consider which rugs work best.

In the bedroom, we often love soft and fluffy textured rugs to welcome us out of our beds in the morning.

Living rooms tend to be more flexible and here we can be adventurous, combining pattern and colour in our décor as with our Celestial multicoloured rug.

Hallways see a lot of foot traffic, so rugs need to be hardwearing and durable.

Kitchens also benefit from a durable, washable rug again in a flatweave pile. We tend to adopt neutral tones in our kitchen rugs too so as not to detract from the kitchen design itself.

And finally, a child’s bedroom benefits from a fun, softer textured rug. Make sure the pile’s not too deep though or you’ll never find those missing Lego pieces.

Trending Designs

Once you’ve considered all the practicalities it’s time to let your inner designer loose on the wonderful selection of rug designs.

Think about the look you want to achieve. Do you want your rug to be a focal point? If so, go for something bold and striking.

Prefer a minimal, Scandi design? Try a monochrome, subtle pattern which blends with your décor like the Boho Black and White Rug.

Mostly we need our rugs to complement the room’s interiors so extend the current colour palette and choose a rug you love.

After all, it’s your home and it needs to make you happy.

We hope you can see how much impact a rug can have on the look of your room’s décor, and we know you’re going to enjoy choosing a rug that brings your home to life.