Vintage Mid Century Modern Rugs

How a Mid Century Modern Vintage Rug Can Highlight your Room Decor

A vintage mid-century modern rug can highlight your room’s decor by incorporating nostalgia into the design and setting the overall tone of your room. The patterns and colors of your rug can serve as the inspiration for the entire room, or they can connect to the pieces you already have and tie the entire space together. Regardless, going with a mid-century modern vintage rug is a smart move to carry your design throughout the entire room and neatly tie a bow on your design. 

Decorating with a Mid Century Modern Vintage Rug

When you decorate with a vintage mid-century modern rug, you don’t necessarily need to be decorating your entire space in a mid-century modern design. Many rugs can serve as a bridge between different designs. For example, many mid-century modern vintage rugs have patterns that use geometric shapes and lines, and these motifs are common in other interior design styles like modern and boho. So, you do have flexibility when it comes to what you pair with your vintage mid-century modern rug and just how much you want the room to fit into that mid-century modern mold. 

Choosing Which Mid Century Modern Vintage Rug is Right For You

There’s plenty of options out there for mid-century modern vintage rugs, but determining which one is right for you may seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, if you think through just a few areas, you’ll be well on your way to finding the rug that’s best for you. 

Position: Early on, you should decide the layout of your rug and if/how it overlaps with your furniture. While there are no set rules, there are some standard ways you can go about it. 

• Living Room: In a living room, a vintage mid-century modern rug can look fantastic when it’s centered with your main seating. Some people place the rug entirely in front of the furniture, others place it just beneath the front legs of the seats, and others have their furniture sit entirely on top of it. 
• Dining Room: Placing your mid-century modern rug directly beneath your dining room table makes the most sense, as does having enough excess on the sides that the chairs sit comfortably on the rug whether they’re pushed in or pulled out. 
• Bedroom: One of the most common layouts for rugs is to have it under the bottom two-thirds of the bed. Other times, you can have it completely under the bed or beside the bed. Much of it depends on if the bed is centered in the bedroom; if it’s not, you can always center the rug in its place. 
• Kitchen: Vintage mid century modern rugs can fit into a vintage kitchen when they’re placed by the sink, a door, or anywhere you tend to stand still. If you have an island or a narrow path, you can always use a runner in those places. 
• Bathrooms: Like kitchens, bathrooms benefit from practical rugs by sinks. You can use 2x3 rugs in front of sinks or even use a runner if you have a double vanity. 
• Outdoors: Vintage mid-century modern rugs are available as outdoor rugs too, so you can carry your style out to your outdoors as well.

Size: Now that you’ve established the layout, it’s time to choose the size that works best in that configuration. Make sure that the rug isn’t going to be too large or too small in comparison to the furniture and the size of the room itself; if the size is off, then the room will appear out of balance. 

Shape: Vintage mid-century modern rugs come in a variety of shapes, from the standard round and rectangular rugs to square, oval, octagonal, and more. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box and play with the shape of the rug, especially since mid-century modern design is a style that loves using shapes in unique ways. 

Pattern: Whether you choose to go with a uniquely shaped rug or not, you’ll find that mid-century modern vintage rugs tend to use patterns with geometric shapes, lines, and curves. However, if you’re leaning more into the vintage side of the style, you’ll find other patterns that blend well with more traditional or even ornate styles. Think about the overall tone you want to set and choose a pattern that conveys that mood. 

Color: The color scheme of the rug and the intensity of those colors both have a large impact on the rug’s tone. Vintage rugs as a whole tend to use muted and worn colors, but if you want to really lean into the original tone of mid-century modern style, find a rug that uses bolder colors like orange or red. Whichever way you’re leaning with your style, you can find a vintage mid-century modern rug that suits your needs and expresses your style.

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