Recommend me a rug!

[tuftears]

Presently there's this big swathe of space between the sofa and the TV. I'm thinking of a rug to fill the space in. What do you think?



Here's the living room.

This is the rug I'm thinking of.

There are some other nice rugs on this website as well.



For the library, I'm thinking of this one. kagetsume suggests that red and gold carpets, what I would have picked to start with, would make both rooms too red.

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Photos too BIIIIIIIIIIG resize plzz???

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Better? I shrunk 'em down to 1024x768.

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Put down a yoga mat and start doing yoga. A lot of space is great!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Considering yoga mats are like 24" wide, and the space to fill here is about 70x100", I think I'll save exercise equipment like that for a side bedroom. :)

[herefox.livejournal.com]

That probably would make the room too red. Maybe contrast with green and gold? I don't think it would make it too holiday-ish ;-)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

What, the black and gold "Safari Skin" rug would?

I do have a distinct worry against using green because it might look a bit... garish.

[herefox.livejournal.com]

Well, the red and gold in that room would definitely be a lot of red in one space. Black and gold would probably be fine.

You'd want to go for a fairly deep green, not a light one if you went that route. You're right that anything too bright would be very noticeable.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

True, a really good dark green with sufficiently neat aesthetics could work! The aesthetics are the hard part to nail.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Dark blue, cream, gold, black. No red, and no green (unless it's a turquoise-y) color.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

This tiger-striped rug (http://plushrugs.com/dynamic-rugs/yazd/2804-190/cream-black/) has some appeal too.

This one is leopard-spotted! (http://plushrugs.com/kas/sahara/4403-leopard-border/ivory-coffee/)

I thought about something with a more Oriental-theme border, but when I saw 'animals' on their Style dropdown list of search, I couldn't resist. Rawr. Most of the Oriental/Arabian-theme ornate border rugs are just too busy, in general.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Too much brown! More like this or this.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I think I like the first one better of those two, but... What is it with all the flowers on rugs? -_-

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Plush cream in the livinng room is what comes to mind to me. (I could never have plush or cream, given my pets, but your situation may be different!)

I look at the library and think 'footstools' rather than carpet.

Gold would be nice in either space. Agree that red is too much, and I would lean towards lighter/brighter because you have a lot of dark/heavy things going on.

But thank you for not choosing coffee tables. My shins hate those things.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Speaking of cream rugs...

This tiger-striped rug (http://plushrugs.com/dynamic-rugs/yazd/2804-190/cream-black/) has some appeal too.

This one is leopard-spotted! (http://plushrugs.com/kas/sahara/4403-leopard-border/ivory-coffee/)

I did think about coffee tables, but since I intend to have it be feasible to move a beanbag into the center space and have someone comfily watch TV from it, having a coffee table would just make me have to move it out of the way... And really, I don't have a clear vision of what people would do with a coffee table; my living space is designed around watching movies on the TV, not sipping coffee while endlessly yakking at one another across the coffee table.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

My first thought was that it needed a big tiger skin rug in the living room, but I decide that wasn't really P.C. (Or legal, of course...) :P

I approve of the tiger border. The leopard print feels too blocky.

Maybe: http://plushrugs.com/kas/emerald/9011-scroll/ivory/

(not animal, but the right colors, and no flowers. :P)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

This would be the point where I mutter about trying to use some kind of Gimp magic to take the rugs and force them into a perspective-correct shape against the living room picture to see which would look best. :)

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Easily done in Photoshop - I believe the commands are the same in Gimp. ctrl-T to initiate transform, then right click and choose 'perspective'. The corners will then drag in and the center of each edge will control the direction of the perspective. Let me know if Gimp doesn't do it and I will toss a few together for you.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

(Addendum: 'skew' might actually get you better results. Happily, you have great lines in the floor to line up with.)

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Oh, heck, since I had to open Photoshop to remember what the commands were called:

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Whoo, thanks! ^_^ I think the tiger striped one comes off looking better in there. Really need the strong black border to stand out against the strong reds.

Now I must experiment with the other rugs mentioned.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

This works pretty well! ^_^

[rowyn]

I like the tiger-striped border best. :)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it might look better in real life, but I think black is winning me over, here! Goodness, who knew interior decoration was so... fraught with perils and dilemmas?

[rowyn]

It's your house, so you should definitely get what you like best. :) The black one you like looks good too!

[cjthomas.livejournal.com]

I'll second the suggestion of "black and gold". I'd avoid anything with too much light-coloured space; a rug should be an accent, not foreground, and that much light colour will draw the eye too much.

I see what people are saying regarding "too red"... but that assumes you want a balanced room. You _could_ go with a red carpet, if you also added red trim or similar near the ceiling (like the frilly stuff at the top of your curtains). Right now, the beige walls give enough contrast that you really notice the red, but if the contrast is removed, it becomes background.

Probably less effort to pick a non-red carpet, though =^.^=.

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

I kinda like http://plushrugs.com/momeni/new-wave/nw-34/gold/ !

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Eh, I dunno. I think the gold doesn't stand out well against the wood floor.

[katepufftail.livejournal.com]

I like this one :3

http://nazmiyalantiquerugs.com/antique-rugs/isfahan-esfahan/antique-esfahan-persian-rug-43282/

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Now do they have one like that but in dark blue or black and gold, and oh, 10% the price? };)