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Liner Wool Rug close up, hand tufted cream New Zealand wool ruled in fine, even lines.

Does a Rug Make a Room Look Bigger

A rug can make a small room look bigger or smaller, and size decides which. The rules that open up a room: legs on the rug, a tone close to the floor, lines along the long wall and one rug, not three.

Cadence Wool Rug close up, hand tufted ivory New Zealand wool with a carved chevron groove.

Layout

A Rug for a Living Room With Many Doors

When a living room has four or five doors, the rug has to answer to the paths between them. How to map those routes, size the rug around them and choose a weave that takes the crossings.

Nuva Silk Rug in Chocolate folded at the corner, handloom Botanical Silk with a deep brown sheen.

Bedroom

A Rug for a Box Storage Bed

Most Indian bedrooms now have a box or hydraulic storage bed: heavy, flush to the floor and hard to move. Where a rug should sit, which sizes work, and the drawer and dust problems to plan for.

Bitte Wool Rug close up, hand tufted New Zealand wool with fine marks running across a grey ground.

Layout

A Rug for a Long, Narrow Living Room

A narrow living room needs a rug sized to its width, not its length. Widths in feet, when to use two rugs, and how a made to measure size fixes the awkward ones.

Congrand Wool Rug in a living room, sized so the front legs of the sofa and chairs stand on it.

Layout

What Size Rug Do I Need for My Living Room?

One table answers most of it: your sofa, your room size and the rug that fits, in feet and centimetres. Then the rules for borders, legs, L shaped sofas and open plan rooms.

Terraform Wool & Silk Rug folded over itself, a pale hand tufted wool field crossed by a network of fine brown lines.

Custom

Two Piece Rugs for L Shaped and Open Rooms

An L shaped room tempts you towards an L shaped rug. A matched pair, made to measure from one dye lot, is usually easier to make, live with and clean.

Arctic Wool Rug close up, black brushstroke marks on a pale hand tufted New Zealand wool ground, a pattern that can carry a 12x15 ft floor.

Large Rugs

One Oversized Rug or Two Smaller Rugs

A large living room can carry one generous rug or two smaller ones. How to decide by furniture, floor plan, budget and the way the room is used.

Livid Wool & Silk Rug seen from above beside a black metal side table, hand tufted New Zealand wool and Botanical Silk in flowing dark lines.

Layout

Straight Line Loop Rugs: Quiet Stripes in the Pile

Straight Line is one of Rugberry's five loop pile textures: loops set in parallel rows so the pile forms fine ribs. How to place a linear rug in a room, and how it compares with a woven stripe.

Congrand Wool Rug in a styled living room, the front legs of the sofa and chairs resting on the rug.

Layout

All Legs, Front Legs or Floating: Rug Layouts

Three ways to set furniture on a rug, tested against the three plus one plus one sofa set, the diwan and floor seating found in Indian living rooms.

Bedroom

Rug Under a Bed: Three Layouts That Work

Full, two thirds or a pair of runners. How to choose a rug layout for a bed when the wardrobe sits a few feet away, as it does in most Indian bedrooms.