Choosing rugs for your rooms, from rug sizes to other details, unexpectedly takes more time than you think. You barely settled on the size of the rugs you want to have, now you need to move on and choose the colors for your rugs.
Monochromatic or colorful? Pastel or vivid? With or without patterns? There are gazillions of choices to take. At the end of the day, it does not depend on your favorite colors or the prettiest rugs you find in the store. It’s about the harmony between your furniture, room, and your rugs.
Picking Rug Color: Neutral, muted, pastel, or bold colors?
NEUTRAL WARMTH
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CALM SPARKS
Neutral doesn’t mean boring. Look at our ARTEMIS AR-1258A-IVO-BAK which perfectly combines whites and earthy color.
TIMELESS TONES
The combination of the black and white spectrum like our APHRODITE AD-A759A-IVO-LGY has unending beauty.
Let’s start with the general rule first. There are only two general rules in mixing and matching your rugs. Pair neutral colors with bolder colors and solid furniture with patterned rugs. We can apply the rules and vice versa as well.
Now, we’ll talk about the color combinations. There are quite a lot of combinations that you can take. Rugs in neutral colors, such as white, black, or shades of grey are most often the safest choice. Just like its name, rugs of neutral colors could bring the balance and neutralize rooms with a lot of colors and textures.
PRETTY SOFTNESS
Your favorite spot needs a rug in your favorite colors. Just pick APOLLO AP-AV44C-BGE-GRY for an easier option
CREAM DREAM
A pastel-colored rug lets a more calming mood. Spread an ALETHEIA AL-MA801-GRY-XX14 like this.
SOPHISTICATED DETAILS
Pastel rug with small stripes details will add a lively atmosphere to your favorite room like our APOLLO AP-AU83A-CRM-LGY.
We’ll shift a little from neutral colors to light and pastel colors. Softer hues of any color could compliment your brightly colored walls or furniture. Plus, light-colored rugs could make your rooms look even more spacious.
Putting bright-colored rugs on places with high traffic might stress you out, though. All the dirt sticking on your rugs could really drive you mad at some point. As the dirt would be more visible on brighter rugs, you might need to clean them a lot more often than rugs with darker colors.
In contrast, colors that are brighter, bolder, more vibrant, or more vivid are better suited for rooms with walls and furniture of muted colors.
Rule of Thumb: different rug color, different mood
By now, you might have one or two desired colors in mind. Stop for a minute and hear us out. Do you know that depending on the color you choose, you can also change the overall mood of your room?
Take for example neutral colors. These colors not only give a clean look to your room, but it often exudes the warmth of your room. We like to recommend having rugs in neutral colors for rooms that you want to emphasize to have a homey feeling.
Other than neutral colors, muted and pastel colors also give off similar vibes. Their less saturated hues tend to give your room a calming atmosphere.
BE A LITTLE BOLD
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COLORFUL STRIPES
Pretty layers of bright color combinations are indeed beautiful in our APOLLO AP-7914A-DGY-CRM
STRIKING DETAILS
Be bold with blue spectrums the way our HANDTUFTED WJS06 shows it.
Compare it to rugs in rich and deep colors. They tend to give a more intimate feel to your rooms. The correct shade of colors can also amp up your rooms into looking glamorous and luxurious. Some colors that we recommend are burgundy, chocolate, or navy. Rugs of these colors are especially beautiful as the spotlight in the family rooms.
Last, contrasting hues also bring completely different vibes. Spicier hues, like shades of reds, oranges, and yellows, add warmth to your rooms. In comparison, cooler colors like blue, and pink, also work well in toning down your rooms and give off an overall calmer mood.
Next: Choosing the colors for the patterns in your rugs
BRIGHT DETAILS
Our APOLLO AP-1116A-CRM-LBG shows that intricate details can be in bright & soft color spectrums.
PLAY WITH WARM TONES
Earthy brown meets soft yellow creates the perfect homey feel the way APRODHITE AD-A761A-BGE-GRN reveals it.
SOFT YET INTRICATE
Our APOLLO AP-7901A-DGY-CRM tells you that some light blue unites perfectly with soft pastel orange.
If you are not into solid-colored rugs and want to experiment with patterned rugs, we have the answer for you. The basic rules to find the perfect patterned rugs for your rooms are more or less the same. Pair up patterned rugs dominated in neutral colors with your colorful interior. However, we have more tips for you who are looking to spice up your rooms with more colors.
Patterned rugs do not come in one color. They consist of two or more colors of either different hues or saturation. You can use one of these colors as a guide to finding your furniture’s soul mate. Choose patterned rugs that have matching hues with your furniture.
SUNNY DETAILS
Bright yellow patterns in our ATHENA DK94A-Y-ONGR add pleasant details to your home.
ROUND BOLDNESS
An extraordinary detail like in our ROUND LUC-8621A-LGY-BGE with the combinations of bright blue and red makes it the must-have round rug.
PRETTY NAVY
Delicate patterns blend perfectly with navy bold tones shown in our HANDTUFTED CT106-01-XA collection.
For extra colorful rooms, you can opt for more colorful patterned rugs too. With patterned rugs consisting of over two colors, for example, you can match the colors in the rugs to the color of your sofa, pillows, drapes, and wall at the same time.
If necessary, take some of your interiors for a walk with you. That way, you can find the perfect match for your sofa’s pillows, or the wall art in your room.
You can browse through some of Artisan Rugs’ collections available online here to practice before your real hunt. We have a wide array of rugs, from solid colored to patterned ones and from neutral colored to more colorful options. Know that we can also create customize rugs specialized for you only as well. Click the button below to leave us messages.