Mid Century Modern Area Rugs 9X12

How a Mid Century Modern 9x12 Rug Can Highlight your Room Decor

Mid Century Modern design is a style that evolved in the aftermath of World War II, and its furniture and decor often uses unique shapes and curves in its styling. When you’re shopping for a Mid Century Modern 9x12 rug, you’ll find that many of them have patterns and designs that are abstract, geometric, and display curved lines. Adding in a Mid Century Modern 9x12 area rug can highlight your room’s decor by continuing the trend of focusing on curves and abstract artwork and firmly establish the room’s design. 

Decorating with a Mid Century Modern 9x12 Rug

Aside from the shapes and lines of mid century modern design, you’ll also find that many mid century rugs use color in unique ways. Some will be more vibrant than others; because modern interior design tends to use more black and white and neutral colors in its designs, you’ll find that many mid century modern rugs have the classic designs of that original style but the color scheme of modern interior design. So, when you’re decorating with a mid century modern 9x12 rug, think about how much you’ll be leaning into the original style and how much you want it to fit into today. 

Choosing Which Mid Century Modern 9x12 Rug is Right For You

Aside from the advice described above, there are even more ways for you to process which mid century modern area rug 9x12 is right for you. 

Position: The first step is to determine how you plan on doing the layout of your room and how the rug plays into that. There are no set rules for a right or wrong way to do layout, but here are some rough ideas. 

• Living Room: In a living room, you’ll often find a 9x12 rug is either centered completely beneath the furniture, under the front two legs of the furniture, or centered in front of/in the middle of it. 
• Bedroom: In bedrooms, you’ll see rugs that are placed centered entirely beneath the bed, under the bottom ? of it, or elsewhere. If your bed is pushed to one side of the room, you can always center the rug in the middle of the room itself, and you can even have the bed overlap with it a tad. 
• Dining Room: Rugs often look most natural when they’re centered beneath the dining room table and have enough excess that the chairs sit comfortably on the rug whether they’re pushed in or not. 
• Outdoors: You can also decorate with a mid century modern 9x12 rug outdoors by a seating area, dining area, or other functional space. 

Size: You’ve already narrowed down your search to 9x12 rugs, but now that you have the position of your rug in mind, take a moment to confirm that this is the right size. The rug shouldn’t be too large in comparison to the room, nor should it be too small. 

Pattern: Just because mid century modern 9x12 area rugs tend to fit into patterns that use curved lines and geometric shapes doesn’t mean that you’re limited with what design you choose. There are hundreds of patterns out there that vary in their shape combination, the size of the pattern, the nature of the abstract shapes, etc. When selecting a pattern, find one that strikes the mood you want it to strike and a pattern that is interesting enough to serve as a focal point or one that fades into the background depending on what your room needs. 

Color Scheme: As described earlier, mid century modern 9x12 area rugs come in a variety of color palettes. Rugs that show off more bold color schemes tend to be truer to the time that this style was developed, while rugs that use neutral colors are designed that way to fit into the present day. The color scheme you choose will dramatically impact which vein of mid century modern design you fall into, so think about what style you’re pursuing and what tone and mood you want to set in your room.

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