A mediterranean area rug can highlight your room’s decor by contributing to your color palette, establishing the style, and fitting into the room’s overarching tone. A rug shouldn’t be an afterthought in designing your room; it should be picked intentionally to work with your other poufs, pillows, and wall art to contribute to your personal style. When you look at it from that perspective, it’ll help you create a room where each element works together and each piece shines as a piece of the grander scheme.
Mediterranean style as a whole focuses on indoor-outdoor living and emphasizes both nature and class. When you add a mediterranean area rug to your home, you reach into those themes and also bring in the rich history behind mediterranean design. Even within those parameters, you still have plenty of options when it comes to color palettes, patterns, finishes, and other key aspects, so you can truly find a rug that’s perfect for you.
Since mediterranean style is so full of potential, you may be wondering how to find the mediterranean rug that’s just right for you. Fortunately, if you think through these key areas, it will help guide your search.
Position: First up, look at your room and decide which area you want to accentuate with a rug. These general ideas will serve to guide you in the right direction.
Living Room: In living rooms/family rooms, you’ll likely use a large mediterranean area rug to accentuate your main seating area. You have the choice to sit the rug in front of the furniture, under their front legs, or further beneath the chairs. If you’re looking to establish a smaller sitting area, then you can dress it up with a small mediterranean rug partway beneath the furniture.
Dining Room: The most uniform way to decorate your dining room with a rug is to center the rug beneath the table. When you do so, measure so that you have an extra two or three feet of rug on each side of the table; that will give you plenty of room for the chairs to be pushed in and out.
Bedroom: If your bed is a central focal point along a wall, try layering a rug with the bed. Another common layout for bedrooms is to have the bed closer to one wall than the other and center a rug in the middle of the room/along the side of the bed.
Kitchen: Small mediterranean rugs can make a big statement in the kitchen. Use a 2x3 or 3x5 rug in front of a sink/stove or use a mediterranean runner rug in a narrow pathway.
Bathroom: Similar to kitchens, you can use a runner to establish a walkway, but you can also use it to accentuate a double vanity. Alternatively, 2x3 and 3x5 rugs can really highlight your tub, shower, or sink(s).
Outdoors: No need to keep your style within the four walls of your home; you can use a mediterranean outdoor rug on your deck, patio, or porch. Look back at similar indoor spaces for layout inspiration.
Shape/Size: Once you know your layout, you can finalize the size and shape of your rug. Both of these elements are dependent on the size of the room and how you plan on layering your rug with the furniture. If you’re unsure, start off with common shapes like rectangular, round, and runner rugs. Then, layer them appropriately so that they are to scale with the rest of the room and don’t look too big or too small for that space/compared with that furniture.
Pattern: Within mediterranean area rugs, you still have options for patterns and designs. Some will highlight older, more ornate patterns that convey similar tones to persian and oriental designs. Others will use contemporary or retro designs to take the Mediterranean style into a different era. No matter which way you lean stylistically, make sure your rug’s pattern fits with the rest of your decor and sets the right tone.
Color: Since mediterranean rugs are so versatile and expansive in their designs, you’ll find a wide array of color palettes to choose from. Neutral tones like grey, white, and beige can be used to convey the age of the style while more bold colors can take your mediterranean style into the modern age. Once again, look at your other decor and your vision for the room to find a rug’s color palette that conveys the right tone and style.
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