Farmhouse Laundry Room Rugs

How a Farmhouse Laundry Room Rug Can Highlight Your Room Decor

A farmhouse laundry room rug can highlight your other decor by making your laundry room feel homey, comfortable, and practical. The key to designing any room is to look at it with one unified vision. When you do that, you’ll naturally choose wall art, shelf-sitters, rugs, and other decor that will bounce well off one another and shine as a part of the room’s grand design. 

Decorating With a Farmhouse Laundry Room Rug

Farmhouse style as a whole became popular because of how vintage and loved it feels as well as how it harkens back to simple living. However, farmhouse style has several different interpretations and blends, such as vintage farmhouse, modern farmhouse, and rustic farmhouse. No matter which branch of farmhouse style you fall under, you can find a farmhouse laundry room area rug that’s just right for your personal preferences.

Choosing Which Farmhouse Laundry Room Rug is Right for You

With so many different takes on farmhouse style, you may be wondering what style you fall into and how to choose a farmhouse laundry room rug that’s just right for you. If you start off by considering these key topics, that will help you find your perfect farmhouse rug.

Position/Size: Laundry rooms often work within smaller, more limited footprints, so you have just a few options of how to place a rug and what size it is. Consider these ideas to give you some guidance. 

Runners: In narrow laundry rooms, a farmhouse runner rug can be the perfect fit to establish a comfortable path throughout the room and/or accent your washer and dryer. When you use a runner rug in your laundry room, center it either in the middle of the room or with something along the wall (like your washer/dry set, a sink, folding area, or some other space). 

Center Stage: Perhaps you want to accent a certain area like the ones listed above, but you want to go a bit larger than a runner rug. You can easily upgrade to another rug like a 3x5, 4x6, or 5x7 rug right in front of the area and even have it layered with the furniture/fixtures if you choose. Whatever area you want to accent, make sure the rug is centered with it.

Area Rug: If your room has a larger footprint, then you can use a large farmhouse laundry room area rug to fill the entirety of the space. When you do that, make sure it doesn’t literally press up against all the room’s walls, or else the space will look cluttered and feel more cramped. 

Shape: The shape of your rug is highly dependent upon where you’ll place the rug and the size of the room. Rectangular and runner rugs are the most common shapes for laundry rooms, but you can also find rugs that are round, square, or some other shape to best fit your room. 

Pattern: Different veins of farmhouse style call for different patterns. When you blend farmhouse style with others, you likely choose a farmhouse color palette in a different style’s pattern or vice-versa. For example, a vintage farmhouse rug may feature an old tilework pattern in farmhouse greys and whites. Alternatively, you could find farmhouse ornamental prints in another style’s color palette. When you’re looking at a pattern, consider what blend of styles you want and how the rug successfully uses its design/color palette to create that bridge. 

Color: Speaking of color, there’s a lot to consider with farmhouse rugs. Modern farmhouses tend to use very muted versions of grey and white, but country farmhouse laundry room rugs may feature light blues and yellows to harken back to the countryside. It’s up to you to determine what branch(es) of style you fall under and find a color palette that establishes your style and sets the proper tone.

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