In the market for an area rug? What’s your need: To define a space? Create a vignette? Have something cozy under your feet? Protect your floors? Keep kids and animals from skidding through rooms and hallways? Muffle echoes? Anchor furniture? Or suggest the aesthetic of the room? It’s probably a mix of many of these criteria. These needs, as well as your day-to-day lifestyle, is where to start when you consider your purchase I got input from two design experts for my latest story for the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Home and Garden section to help consumers figure out how to make area rug decisions.
An area rug offers a good jumping-off point to choose other furnishings and helps define spaces in an open-concept plan, like this one at Thomas Lavin showrooms.
(Courtesy of Rosemary Hallgarten)