Grey Beige Area Rugs

How a Grey and Beige Area Rug Can Highlight Your Room Decor

A grey and beige area rug can highlight your room’s decor by fitting into the room’s color palette, reinforcing the tone, and setting the style of the room. When you focus on connecting your rug to the other decor through these three areas, you can create a room that feels masterfully designed. 

Decorating With a Grey and Beige Area Rug

Within these rugs, the grey and beige tones commonly work together to create a distressed, vintage appearance to mimic the passage of time. However, there are plenty of options beyond that design. Others will use brighter shades of grey and beige to add drama and flair as well as fit into more modern styles. No matter what style you fit into, grey and beige area rugs are diverse enough that you can find one that’s perfect for you. 

Choosing Which Grey and Beige Area Rug is Right for You

As you shop for the grey and beige rug that’s perfect to show off your style, consider these key areas. 

Position: One of the first steps should be to determine your room’s layout and where you want to place the rug within that. Check out these general guidelines to get you started. 

Living Room: Oftentimes, it’s natural to place a large area rug with your main seating area. Common placements include putting the rug in front of the seats, under their front legs, or further beneath the chairs. A lot of this will depend on the size of the living room and ensuring that the sizes of everything are to scale. 

Dining Room: When it comes to dining rooms, you’ll likely center a grey and beige area rug directly beneath the table. Leave about two to three feet of excess on each side of the rug so the chairs can be pushed in and out. 

Bedroom: If your bed is a central focal point, you can reinforce it by layering a rug under the bed. Three common positions include placing the rug all the way under the bed, under the bottom two-thirds of it, or closer to the foot of the bed. 

Kitchen: 2x3 and 3x5 grey and beige rugs are great additions in front of a kitchen sink or stovetop. Another option is to use a grey and beige runner rug in narrow areas/pathways. 

Bathrooms: Bathrooms will use similar sized rugs to the kitchen. The small rugs can be placed in front of sinks, tubs, or showers. Runners are ideal in front of a double vanity or in another narrow path. 

Outdoors: Dress up your deck, patio, porch, or other outside space with a grey and beige outdoor rug. For layout ideas, check out similar indoor spaces. 

Shape/Size: After you know your ideal layout, finalize the shape and size of the rug. Some smaller sizes have been recommended above, but for medium and large rooms, consider 5x7, 6x9, 8x10, and 10x12 rugs. As for shape, there are three common ones that are used most frequently: Rectangular, round, and runner. These three shapes are easy to work with and fit into most homes, but you can also use a more unique shape if your room’s footprint is difficult or you just want to do something different. 

Pattern: Since both grey and beige are common colors in every style, you’ll find they’re available in nearly every sort of pattern. Vintage, distressed rugs are commonplace, but so are abstract, geometric, and boho patterns. The key to choosing a pattern is to find one that connects to the rest of your decor thematically. For example, if your decor uses geometric shapes in the artwork and other knick-knacks, find a rug that uses similar shapes and lines to reinforce the theme. Also make sure that the rug’s pattern doesn’t take away from any other focal points in the room by being too busy. 

Color: It’s great that you’ve narrowed your search to grey and beige area rugs, but now you need to determine if you want one color to be more prominent than the other and what tone you want the colors to convey. Plus, you need to decide what other colors you may want incorporated into the rug. Blues, reds, greens, blacks, and many others tend to show up in grey and beige rugs, so you have your pick of palettes and tone.

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