Tips for Area Rug Placement

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 a large rug, and you just might be right. But there's plenty to consider before you get to installing a large one.

Placement is key to get the most out of a larger sized rug. The best place to put them 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 optimise placement. Here are some tips to help with this.

When you place a rug in your bedroom (or one of your children's for that matter), there is no need for it to be centred, 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 an area rug 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 large area rugs. This enables a guest to be seated and arise without touching the hard flooring beneath the rug. You can place all four legs of seating on area rugs, but this is not as frequent. Often the addition of a coffee table in the middle of an area rug will add the finishing touches to a living space which contains an Area Rug.

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