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

[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!