Green Floral / Botanical Area Rugs

How a Green Floral / Botanical Area Rug Can Highlight Your Room Decor

A green floral rug can highlight your room’s decor by fitting into the color palette, contributing to the theme, and setting the tone of the room. When you look at your rug as an opportunity to further your room’s style and theme, you create a space that feels cohesive and masterfully designed. 

Decorating With a Green Floral / Botanical Area Rug

When you’re decorating with a green floral / botanical area rug, you have several options of how to take that theme. You can find green patterns that fit into jungle styles, coastal scenes, tropical spaces, and so many others. Aside from the selection in patterns and designs, you have plenty of color palettes, pile heights, materials, and other aspects to choose from. No matter what sort of style you’re trying to create, you can find a green floral rug that’s perfect for you.

Choosing Which Green Floral / Botanical Area Rug is Right for You

Since there are so many choices out there for green botanical rugs, you may be wondering how to find one that’s just right for you. One way to go about the shopping process is to think through these key topics. 

Position: It’s vital to think about your room’s layout early on to help you determine the placement of the rug. Each room is unique, but these general ideas will serve to get you started. 

Living Room: If you’re setting up your main seating area, you can accentuate that by placing a rug in the middle of that space. Lay the rug in front of the seats, under the front legs, or further beneath the chairs. Alternatively, you can use a smaller green floral / botanical area rug in another part of the room to establish a separate sitting area. 

Dining Room: When you add a rug to your dining room, it’s natural to center it directly beneath the table. If you leave about two or three feet of excess rug on each side, that will give you plenty of room to push the chairs in and out on the rug. 

Bedroom: If your bed is centered along a wall, you can make that a larger focal point by laying a rug beneath the bed. The most common layouts are to set the rug all the way under the bed or under the bottom two-thirds of it. If your bed isn’t centered and is off to one side of the room, try centering a rug in the middle of the room itself to provide visual interest in that area and connect multiple areas of the room. 

Kitchen: In kitchens, 2x3 or 3x5 green floral rugs are ideal in front of your kitchen sink or stovetop. Another common layout for kitchens is to use a green botanical runner rug in a narrow path that coincides with those areas where you tend to be still. 

Bathroom: Bathrooms will use similar sized rugs to the kitchen. Set small rugs next to a tub, shower, or sink to establish those spaces or choose a runner rug to fill a path or compliment a double vanity. 

Outdoors: Because of the subject matter of the rugs, green floral / botanical area rugs are a great option for your deck, patio, porch, or other outdoor space. For layout inspiration, look back at similar indoor spaces. 

Size/Shape: Once you know your layout, you can finalize the size and shape of your rug. Since botanical area rugs come in so many different options stylistically, there’s a wide array of shapes out there to choose from. There are standard shapes like round, rectangular, and runner, but there are other shapes that may be contoured to shape around leaves and vines or more modern shapes like square or octagonal. The size of your rug will depend on the shape you choose as well as how you choose to layer it with your furniture. The size and shape of your rug may seem unimportant compared to other facets like the design and color palette, but they play a big role in making sure your room feels balanced. 

Pattern: As stated earlier, there are plenty of interpretations of what a green floral / botanical area rug is. All the themes listed above are valid and have their place in interior design. The key to finding a pattern that works for you is twofold: make sure the pattern thematically conveys imagery that fits with the rest of your design and make sure the pattern isn’t too busy for the space.

Color: Within green floral rugs, you still have to think about color. For example, consider what shade(s) of green you want most prominent. Dark green, blue green, lime green, and forest green each convey their own tone, so it’s vital to choose a green that establishes the right mood. Then there are other colors within the rug’s pattern to look at like orange, yellow, pink, blue, and others. Ultimately, make sure the rug’s color palette goes with the rest of the room with similar hues and tone.

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