Why You Pick The Area Rug First

There is an article about area rugs in the OC Registers life section of their online paper. It is an excellent article about some of the new trends in area rug fashion. It rightly emphasizes the importance of the rug as the basis of your room design. Professional designers pick the rug first to define the palette of colors for the rest of the room.

…designers like to start with the rug when outfitting an interior, pulling out one or more of its colors for upholstery, walls and window treatments, as well as accessories such as pillows, lamp shades and even flowers in a vase. OC Register

The rug, as the basis of the room décor, needs to visually tie the other colors in the room together. Buying furniture and other furnishings and then trying to find a rug that has those colors is much tougher than doing it the other way around.

But most people buy furniture first, considering rugs an accessory. With the more visually provocative rugs, that can be a challenge. OC Register

The best procedure to decorating a room from scratch is to pick an area rug in the color array you like best and build the room around that.