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Need an area rug (matching patterns)
We had a flood in our family room so it's being completely redone. New floors, new paint.
Our floors are now going to be a dark hardwood, walls greyish/tan (Silver Birch by Glidden). The trim is white, mantel is white and slightly distressed.
I want to keep my green and white damask curtains and my chocolate couch, chocolate leather chair and tan chair. We have kids and three dogs, I'm not ready to upgrade that stuff yet.
Before the flood my floors were a light pine and my walls were khaki. Our tv stand is a distressed blue, coffee table is dark wood and we have a low silver cabinet that houses games and dvds. We had a ivory/beige shag area rug.
My husband doesn't want another ivory/beige rug so I'm stuck as to what will match everything else. I love color and don't like things too matchy matchy but I don't want the room to be schizophrenic either.
Since the room isn't completed, I can't really post pics yet. This is a collage of look alikes (except the picture is mine and we have the same tan chair).
Do I need to stick with a solid color? Would a patterned rug work?
These are pictures of the old room.
Edited to add this rug. What do y'all think? Too much?
Re: Need an area rug (matching patterns)
A patterned rug could definitely work - maybe a larger-scale geometric that could bring in the green and blue and tie the whole room together. Probably easier said than done, but I'm sure you can find something.
FWIW, I don't think the paint color complements your awesome curtains very well. I think neutral walls are probably the way to go, but maybe something a bit lighter/cooler toned.
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You think I should go lighter/cooler/more neutral than Silver Birch? Which, by the way, isn't completely the color in the collage but it's so hard to match colors in the interwebs. I was thinking that was pretty neutral and greigeish.
In the second and third pictures, the walls are supposed to be a khaki brown but the lighting makes them look really yellow there. So glad that color is gone now.
Fun rug! I think if you got that rug, the wall color would work. It's very bold but with the right accents it could be great - I'd probably stick to textured solids for everything else rather than bring in any more pattern.
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http://shawfloors.com/area-rug/HGTV&Page=1
I just started looking through the rugs! The site is great shawliving.com the link is specifally the HGtV collection.