Okay, y’all. This is round 3 of my search for an area rug for our bedroom. I know some of you said I should just wait, but I’m like a dog with a bone now. If I have a few minutes of extra time, and I sit down at my computer, I immediately start searching for area rugs. Plus, I spent a ridiculous amount of time and effort yesterday wrestling with the previous four 9 x 12 area rugs to get them packed up and ready to return. All of them are going back. I’m not going to try to make myself like a rug, or live with a rug just because it’s more convenient to keep it than it is to return it and keep searching.
Anyway, I read your comments. I looked at all of your links. I considered your suggestions. And the suggestions that stood out to me the most were to lean more into the orange/coral color in the headboard fabric. I did consider other suggestions, though, like to maybe go in the direction of a sisal rug or a sisal-look rug. I did consider that option very seriously, but being the lover of color that I am, the idea of leaning more into the orange/coral seemed more appealing to me.
The main thing I noticed about my previous attempt was that the background color of the headboard fabric is going to be a problem if I keep trying to pair it with a rug that has a predominantly cream, beige, or off-white background. The background of the fabric has a tinge of yellow to it. It’s not a standard off-white or cream color. So if I try to pair it with a rug with a cream background, it’s always going to clash, which was my main problem with the last rug.
The rug just reads too light and bright compared to the yellow beige background of the fabric. So I decided to lean into the orange/coral color and see what I could find. I think I’ve found some viable options, all of which would give me the color I so desire, while none of them lean heavily into the off-white, beige, or cream that would clash with the fabric. Interestingly, every single one of these can be found at this link (affiliate link).
This first one leans more towards a reddish coral, but I think it would work.
This one definitely leans more towards the orange side, which I love. It also bring in some of the light teal color from the headboard.
This one is somewhere in between the reddish coral of the first one, and the more orange color of the second one. It’s like those two colors were mixed together to give us this color.
This one is heavier towards the light teal color, but it does have quite a bit of orange/coral in it as well.
And this one is another one that has a good deal of a blue-green color, but also with plenty of coral/orange.
And finally, there was this one. I wanted to try it out, but I think the blue in this one is too much of a true blue rather than a blue-green. So it probably won’t work in our room with all of the teal.
I really do think one of these might work. Of course, the headboard fabric won’t be right up against the rug like it is in these pictures.
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