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Should I consider a rug for the dining area?

2 years ago

I like how our open dining/living area looks but keep wondering if we should add a rug to the dining area...

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C P
2 years ago
Lovely room, I'm never a huge fan of rugs over tables because of cleaning and getting chair legs caught. But if you found one large enough and compatible with the space it would certainly work.
Kate
2 years ago
No, but pull your couch back closer to table. It looks squashed down there and it’s leaving the table isolated by comparison.
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robandlyn
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It will be hard to find a rug that will tone in. Your dining chairs are a very busy fabric and the light colour in them looks way more white than the creams in the rest of the room. A rug for there would need to be very plain and I think a cream would look wrong with the chairs and a white would look wrong with rest of room. But it could just be the way the chair fabric is showing on my screen and the lighting of the photo.
Julie Herbert
2 years ago
Looks stunning as is.
dreamer
2 years ago
It’s a shame the back of dining chairs are black. Chairs should have the back as the feature colour, as that is what is seen the most.
davincicalbourne
2 years ago
Another idea is to use a pendant over the dining table to create a ‘room’. The rug in the ‘lounge’ works the same way.

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