Area Rugs

More house shopping. I can't wait until the major decision in my everyday life is what to eat for dinner. But for now, area rugs! J vetoed traditional/Oriental/Persian rugs, so we've taken the hunt in a completely different direction. It's just as well, these are really fun.

I like this one a lot. It reminds of of Marimekko or Orla Kiely, which both design textiles in bold patterns and colors.  The aesthetic is like an updated retro, I think. I'm planning for this to sit under a dining table in a sage green room. Now I need to pick a runner for the hallway adjacent to the dining room. I would like the look of beige, but I'm afraid it will get really dingy because that's a high traffic area. Maybe green or a darker beige/brown? It probably needs to un-patterned and just very lightly textured if it's going to sit close to such a busy rug!

This rug I'm not as enamored of, but I think it will work in our living room, which is painted a very pale, barely-there shade of blue gray. I plan to bring more blues into the room with cushions and curtains, so a light gray rug covering almost half the room seems like a safe bet. The design is bold but not too busy for a large exposed area, and the last light gray rug we had stood up pretty well to foot traffic.