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If you have wood floors - deco question

We have wood floors throughout the first floor and have not put an area rug underneath the kitchen table.  I saw on a deco show a rug is good for "living" and no rug is good for "staging".  huh.  Didn't even think about it...  WDYD?  (what do you do?) :-)
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Re: If you have wood floors - deco question

  • We have area rugs in our living room and dining room to go over the hardwood. It is a thing of comfort for us. It adds warmth to the room and I like having the cushioning vs. always walking on hardwood.

    I like how open a room looks with all hardwood but ultimately I choose my comfort first. 

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  • Our flippers staged with a rug in the dining room over original (refinished) 110 year old hardwood and did not stage with a rug over the cheap crappy wood in the living room.

    We inherited the staging rug. It's ugly, but it is making our den pseudo-wood floor warmer.

    i dunno

     

     

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    We have area rugs throughout for comfort, too!  But UNDER the kitchen table?  :-)
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  • Dining I'm doing a rug, kitchen no rug. I break it up into "formal mess" on a rug is easier to clean then "daily mess" :)
  • we have wood laminate in our LR and DR and no area rugs. I really want to get one for the LR, but haven't yet because we're too poor to buy one. Eventually...
  • We have an area rug in our living room, but I just said to DH this morning I am considering pulling it out for a little while because all the boys do is roll it up and want to chew on it. Grrrrr.
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  • We're putting hardwood in the living room and we will have an area rug in there.  Our dining room (right off the kitchen) is already hardwood and we are not putting a rug there. It would be nuts to have a rug with a baby who is about to start eating "real" food.  I like having area rugs on top of hardwood for the comfort and to add a little pizazz to a room. Rugs are great sources of decorating inspiration for me.
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  • My SIL is the only person I know who puts a rug under the kitchen table. I've never seen that and it looks weird to me-- too formal.

     We have area rugs under our dining room table, but that's more formal and helps tie the whole room's look together. 

    Especially with a child in the house, I'd want to be able to sweep up under the table without having to bust out the vacuum or the stain spray. 

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    Dining I'm doing a rug, kitchen no rug. I break it up into "formal mess" on a rug is easier to clean then "daily mess" :)

    I agree. 

    Although, in our old house, I had no rug in the dining room either and it looked better that way. I think it can depend on the style/size of the room.

    I would never put a rug under the kitchen table - holy mess batman!

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  • I had a rug under our kitchen table but it was because I didn't really like the floors and I was trying to break it up... now that my new floors are in, no rug! 

     

    I do have an area rug on the hardwood floors in my dining room though.

  • I would do a rug under a dining room table (if I had a dining room) but not under a kitchen table! Too much mess. I like to just vacuum stuff up and be done - or if it's a liquid spill, mop it up - easier with a bare floor. 

    In a living room I'd do an area rug for warmth and the look of it.  

    In the house I am possibly moving into the kitchen is all linoleum and the dining room is carpeted in boring white. I would probably even throw an area rug down in the dining room to pretty it up some.  

  • We have a rug under our coffee table in the living room...I like it for decorating purposes and I also workout in there, so it's nice to have the extra padding under my mat.  Our space now is kind off all open, but really small, so a rug under our dining room table would be silly.  I think if we had a real dining room someday, we'd put a rug under it, though - but not an eat-in kitchen table. 
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  • This post has validated my desire to have a rug under our diningroom table.  Of course, we don't have an eat-in kitchen, so I may be asking for it in the mess department, but I really want one.

     

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