Choosing a Rug and Interior Decoration
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Room-Sized Rugs vs. Area Rugs
Rugs offer a useful means of defining and dividing space. They can serve as an anchor or focus for grouping furniture, or breaking a room up into two or more functional areas. To do so, however, one should decide whether to use one or more large rugs, or multiple smaller rugs. There are no hard and fast rules for approaching such decisions. This relies largely on what one needs to do with the space functionally, and on personal preference. But this is a decision that needs to be made early on in the process of choosing the rug. Larger, room-sized rugs that will cover a substantial portion or majority of the floor space offer the advantage of visual unity for the room with furniture distributed across the rug surface. But a number of smaller rugs will accomplish the job of covering the floor, while creating multiple foci for several groupings of furniture. Multiple smaller rugs also give the impression of greater space. But even if one opts to use larger rugs, it is important visually not to cover the entire floor surface of the room. Leaving a substantial margin of floor around a room-sized rug will make the room look bigger.
