Moxie Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 I bought a really pretty 5x7 rug for my laundry room. Turns out it is 5ft 3 in x 7 ft 4 in??? Makes no sense to me but it won't work where I wanted to put it. I still love the rug and there is no way to wrap it up and return it anyway. I have a large front room. The way the windows and doors are, there is no room for a sofa so it has 4 chairs, 2 bookcases, a small dresser and a couple side tables. I've put the rug in the middle of the room but it is way too small. But, the pattern looks really nice in here! How can I make this work?? I thought about getting a coffee table and making a seating area with a couple chairs, the rug and a coffee table?? But then what do I do with the rest of the room? Bonus points if you can show me a picture! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plansrme Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 You can layer rugs. Of course, that means you put a bigger (cheaper, I hope) rug underneath it, but it can end up looking quite snazzy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiden Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Following! We have 3 smaller rugs that my husband bought on his travels before we married. We really like them, but rarely have a space where they fit perfectly. Every time we move (every 2-3 years), I end up looking for ideas of how to use them in our new space! Moxie, I really like the layered rug look, but I'm not sure that it would solve the size problem, since the larger rug just becomes the floor for the smaller rug. I do love how a rug can help define a separate seating area--like you suggested, the coffee table and two chairs. It also could work well as the base of a reading nook if you have a suitable area where you could put a bookcase or two, a comfy chair (maybe with a footstool), and a side table with a lamp and a coaster. So much depends on the layout of the room you're working with. Any way you could post a picture, or a hand-drawn diagram of the room, including where the windows and doors are, as well as an idea of the relative size of the rug and furniture? (I'm almost positive I found a website where you could enter dimensions and it would allow you to virtually rearrange furniture to see how it fit, but it was a long time ago and I have no idea where it was.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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