I’ve had such a hard time picking out an area rug to go in our new bedroom, but I’ve finally found a winner! A couple of weeks ago, I shared several possibilities that I had found on Amazon, and from those, I ordered three plus one more that I thought might work.
As several of you suggested, this time around I ordered much smaller sizes to test out. Now that I’ve found the winner, I’ll return all four of these rugs, and then order the 9 x 12 version of the one I like. But I’ll show you all four that I ordered, and I’ll show you in the order that they arrived. I really love all four of these rugs. They’re all so very pretty, but I think it’ll be very clear that one is the standout winner.
I really love this rug, and as soon as I saw it, I thought for sure that it would be the winner. I love the vibrancy of the orange, and I like that it has teal in it that complements the velvet while not matching it.
It’s a beautiful rug, but that doesn’t look orange to me. It’s way too far on the red end of the spectrum for my taste. It’s a pretty one, though!
The next one is this Bloom Rugs Terracotta/Mustard rug (affiliate link). I didn’t include this one in the post two weeks ago. I came across it the next day and thought it might work.
This rug, quite honestly, is one of the prettiest rugs I’ve ever seen. I love this rug so much. I love everything about it, from the colors to the pattern. I was disappointed that the colors don’t look as vibrant in person as they did in the product listing on Amazon, but it’s still gorgeous.
The orange in this rug is almost a perfect match to the birds in the headboard fabric. And while the rug doesn’t have any green in it, the background color of the border definitely has a green undertone.
And then there were two.
I can’t even express to you how much I love that rug on the left. It’s so gorgeous and so perfect in general, and I was so hoping that I could make myself love it with the fabrics. But while it doesn’t read as red and brown as that second rug in this post, it does still read too red and brown to for the fabrics. And it lacks the vibrancy that I had so hoped it would have.
So that leaves me with the winner.
I think this rug is the perfect one to go in our bedroom. It plays so nicely with the headboard fabric (which was the challenge all along). The orange is actually a bit of a coral-orange, which I love. It has that lightness to it that the other orange rug was lacking. And the light background color in the border not only goes really well with the background color in the headboard fabric, but it has a bit of a green undertone to it that will work nicely with the green accent fabrics I’ll be using in the room.
I can’t wait to get the full 9 x 12 version of this rug! I’m so glad a few of you mentioned ordering the smaller rugs to test out the colors and patterns before ordering a big 9 x 12 size. Because let me tell you, rerolling and repackaging 9 x 12 rugs is not for the faint of heart! That’s a CHORE!! And I had four of them to return! I never would have thought to order the small ones first, but it’s such a smart way to go about choosing a rug.
So what do you think about my choice? Of the four, is that the one you would have chosen?
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
