Custom Flat Weave Rugs

How a Custom Flat Weave Rug Can Highlight Your Room Decor

A custom flat weave rug can highlight your room’s decor by fitting into the existing color palette, reinforcing the tone, and establishing the style. When you choose a rug that works with the other wall art, accessories, and furniture, you don’t detract from the decor; instead, you emphasize each element as an essential part of the room’s overarching design. 

Decorating With a Custom Flat Weave Rug

Flat weave rugs are a popular choice for rooms where you want to avoid tripping hazards and want a rug that doesn’t trap dirt like high pile rugs. Choosing a custom flat weave area rug allows you to have all those benefits and enables you to choose a rug that is the perfect size for your room. Maintaining balance is an essential part of interior design, and with a custom rug, you can choose the rug you love without ruining the room’s scale or creating imbalance. 

Choosing Which Custom Flat Weave Rug is Right for You

When choosing a custom flat weave rug, there are a few important areas to consider. 

Position: Early on, you should decide on the room’s layout and where you’d like to place your rug. Each is unique in size and layout, but these general guidelines will serve to steer you in the right direction. 

Living Room: Flat weave living room rugs are often centered in the middle of the main seating area. In these situations, the rug can rest directly in front of the seats, under their front legs, or further under the chairs. A smaller flat weave rug can also be used elsewhere in the room to establish a smaller seating area or reading nook. 

Dining Room: Custom flat weave area rugs are ideal for dining rooms, since chairs won’t get easily caught on the rug. Plan on centering your rug beneath your table and when you measure, add an extra one to two feet of rug on each side and end of the rug so that there’s plenty of room for the chairs.

Bedroom: In rooms where the bed is centered along a wall and is the main focal point, you can accent it by laying a rug all the way under the bed, under the bottom two-thirds of it, or closer to the foot of the bed. If your bed is off to one side, try centering a rug in the middle of the room instead or to one side of the bed. 

Kitchen: Custom flat weave rugs are popular choices in the kitchen, especially in front of sinks and stoves. A custom flat weave runner rug can create a practical, stylish path and provide comfort to those places you tend to stand still. 

Bathroom: Bathrooms also benefit from custom flat weave runner rugs or custom sized rugs to dress up sinks, tubs, and showers. 

Size/Shape: After the room’s layout and the position of the rug is set, it’s time to finalize the size and shape of the rug. The size of the rug is dependent upon the size of the room and how much it will layer with the furniture, so follow the guidelines above in choosing how far your rug will rest beneath other furniture. Custom shapes can work well with balancing furniture or fitting into fixed layouts, so consider options like rectangular, round, runner, square, and so on to balance your room. 

Pattern: Custom flat weave area rugs come in all sorts of designs, which means you can find a pattern that works in traditional homes, boho rooms, contemporary lofts, and other spaces. When you’re choosing a pattern, look at your existing decor for any shapes or imagery that have similarities to the rug’s pattern. This subtle connection is a great way to make your room feel thematically consistent. 

Color: The color of your custom flat weave rug has a big impact on the room’s tone and style. Once again, this is a great time to look at your existing decor, furniture, and color scheme to connect to the rug. The rug’s color palette should convey the same tone as all those accents and further the room’s style.

Frequently Asked Questions about Custom Flat Weave Rugs

What are the benefits of having a custom flat weave rug?

Custom flat weave rugs are a great way to add warmth, style, and function to any room in your home. As the name suggests, they are rugs that have been carefully crafted from woven fabric by an experienced weaver. The result is a custom rug that is tailored specifically for your space and can fit any size or shape of room.

Can you machine wash a custom flat weave rug?

It is not recommended to machine wash a custom flat weave rug due to the risk of damage. A standard wool or cotton flat weave rug may be machine washed but it should still be done so with caution. It is important to check the care label before washing any rug as some may require handwashing or professional cleaning.

Where should you place a custom flat weave rug?

For a more classic feel go with areas like living rooms where conversations happen often such as between sofas & armchairs or facing around coffee tables; where family members usually gather together to have meaningful conversations. On the other hand if looking towards contemporary styles use places like entryways & hallways as they help create continuity throughout home providing ideal first impressions during entrance.

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