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Insignia Wool & Silk Rug in a large living room, two sofas and a pair of chairs held on one rug.

Large Rugs for Big Living Rooms and Villas

In a drawing room past 20 ft, the furniture group decides the rug, not the room. Here is when one large rug works and when to use two or three.

Dining Room

Living and Dining in One Room: Zoning with Two Rugs

Most Indian flats combine living and dining in one hall. Two rugs can split it into two rooms. How to size them, space them and choose a pair.

Living Room

Rugs for Small Living Rooms

In a compact living room the right rug is usually bigger than you expect, close in tone to the floor and low enough for doors to clear.

Oblique Wool Rug close up, black lines ruled across ivory hand tufted New Zealand wool.

Carved Rugs

Liner, Plaid and Hem: Order in the Pile

Liner, Plaid and Hem are hand tufted New Zealand wool rugs built on repetition: carved lines in ivory, a carved plaid in grey and a regular grid of dots on camel. How each changes a room, and how t...

Congrand Wool Rug close up, hand tufted New Zealand wool in camel with loose ivory lines drawn across it.

Family Room

A Rug for the TV Lounge or Family Room

The TV lounge is the room a family actually lives in. Where the rug goes between sofa and screen, what size it needs, whether it runs under the TV unit, and which wool takes snacks and lying on the...

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.

Sandstorm Reversible Rug in a Goa sitting room, a flat handwoven rug with pale lines on a sand face, cane chairs and garden doors open.

Jute

A Modern Rug for a Boho Room

Boho at its best is relaxed, warm and full of natural texture. At its worst it is clutter. How a modern natural fibre rug gives a bohemian room its ease without the mess, with jute, wool and jute, ...

Bergamo Rug in a sea facing living room, hand tufted New Zealand wool with soft ivory shapes under a curved white sofa.

Collaborations

Rugs for a Parisian Apartment Look

Tall windows, plaster mouldings, herringbone floors and a few good old pieces. The Parisian apartment look relies on a pale, soft rug that lets the room's bones show. How to bring it to an Indian h...

Grain Wool Rug in Sandstone folded at the corner, handloom New Zealand wool in a warm sandy tone with a close texture.

Colour

A Calm Rug for a Maximalist Room

Jewel walls, block prints, a gallery of art and a lifetime of objects. In a maximalist room the rug has one job: to hold everything together. How to choose one that steadies the room without dullin...

Cadence Wool Rug folded at the edge, hand tufted ivory New Zealand wool with stepped carved bands.

Bungalow

Rugs for Old Colonial Bungalows

Old bungalows have tall rooms, shuttered windows, deep verandahs and furniture that has outlived several owners. How a rug can hold a formal room together, warm a cool floor and respect what is alr...