Blue Animal Print Rugs

How a Blue Animal Print Rug Can Highlight Your Room Decor

A blue animal print rug can highlight your room’s decor by reinforcing the room’s color scheme, accentuating the style, and setting the tone. A good rug will highlight your room’s decor by working together with them to create your personal style. Those three areas listed above are excellent connecting points and can make your room feel masterfully designed. 

Decorating With a Blue Animal Print Rug

When you’re decorating with a blue animal print area rug, there are multiple directions you can take your design. Some animal print rugs will specifically mimic the hides of animals like leopard, cheetah, antelope, or some other animal (though in this case, they also fit into the blue color palette). Other animal print rugs with have designs that incorporate animals like fish, turtles, flamingos, birds, and a wide array of other animals. No matter what you’re looking for in your blue animal print rug, you can find one that’s just right for you.

Choosing Which Blue Animal Print Rug is Right for You

As you shop for your perfect rug, it’s vital to think through some key topics.

Position: First, look at your room and determine the layout of the furniture and the placement of the rug. These general ideas will guide you in the right direction. 

Living Room: To highlight your main seating area, center a rug within the middle of that space. You have the choice to set the rug in front of the seats, under their front legs, or further beneath the chairs. Another option is to use a smaller blue animal print rug elsewhere in the room to establish a separate social corner or coffee spot.

Dining Room: When it comes to dining room rugs, be sure to center it beneath your table. Leave about two to three feet of extra rug on each side and end so the chairs sit on the rug whether they’re pushed in or pulled out. 

Bedroom: If your bed is a central focal point of the room, you can emphasize that by laying a rug directly beneath the bed. Depending on the size of the room and what sort of statement you want to make, you can lay a rug all the way under the bed or closer to two-thirds of the way beneath it. If your bed is off to one side, then try centering a rug in the middle of the room itself to add visual interest there and tie the room together. 

Kitchen: Use small rugs (2x3 or 3x5) in front of your kitchen sink or stove to provide comfort and style to those areas. Alternatively, you can use a blue animal print runner rug in a narrow walkway in front of those spaces to still provide comfort and show off your print.

Bathroom: Bathrooms will use similar sized rugs as kitchens, but they’re used in several unique ways. Small rugs can be used in front of tubs, showers, or sinks while runners are ideal for in front of a double vanity.

Outdoors: There’s no need to keep your style inside the four walls of your home; blue animal print rugs are available for outdoor spaces as well. Look back at similar indoor spaces for layout inspiration and guidance. 

Shape/Size: Now that you’ve considered your layout, you can decide on the size and shape of your rug. Blue animal print rugs are available in all the standard shapes of rectangular, round, and runner, but there are also animal hide shapes and other miscellaneous options out there to choose from. When it comes to the rug’s size, it’s key to consider how much it’ll layer with the furniture and how it fits into the size of the room itself. This will affect if the room looks visually balanced or not. 

Pattern: As stated earlier, there are many interpretations of what a blue animal print rug is and what sort of pattern it has. Whether you’re looking for a print that mimics animal hide or you’re looking for animal imagery, you have your pick. Ultimately, your rug’s pattern should fit into your room’s overall theming and style. 

Color: Finally, you still have to consider the colors within your blue animal print area rug. There are multiple shades of blue to choose from like sky blue, navy blue, teal blue, etc. Then there are often other colors within the rug like white, cream, black, red, and others. Your room’s existing color palette can guide you towards the rug’s scheme and help you choose a palette that is consistent with the rest of your design.

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