Sectional Couch And Rug Placement

This arrangement will help to connect the furniture and harmonize room décor while also lending a wonderful sense of proportion to the entire space.

Sectional couch and rug placement.

The ottoman itself offers visual interest and functions as extra seating or table surface. 8 by 10 feet or larger. In a living room for instance all of the furniture should be on top of the rug. This is the best way of letting it rule as a major stylish item of the room s decor.

I start by taping off a 7 x 9 area to see how that looks. When selecting an area rug make sure that it extends under all the key pieces of furniture in the room. This sofa placement isn t for design novices. With that the room won t be too cramped and create an eclectic look.

The front sofa legs and the legs of other furniture should rest on the outer borders of the rug. However if there is enough space and the back of the sofa has nice upholstery this look can work very well. Depending on the size of your rug you may not have the option of it extending beneath your sectional pieces and you may want to center it beneath your coffee table instead. As a general rule you don t want to place a sofa in front of a door because you don t want to block it and you don t want people to walk into the back of the sofa.

Before moving onto examples where all the legs are placed on the rug let s look at a hybrid of the two approaches. This proves to be more effective here than if only the front portion of the chairs fit onto the rug because of the size of the room and the contrasting tone of the rug against the flooring. If this isn t possible it s okay to have the front legs of major upholstered pieces on the rug and the back legs off. Your rug choice might be determined by your age.

In front of a door. This arrangement will tend to define and establish the aspect of a room provided that it is able to accommodate a larger rug. Lower furniture such as a this sectional sofa above look fine with a rug tucked 8 12 under the edge of the sofa but for the beautiful side chairs the rug should sit completely underneath all four legs. A sectional with rug commonly have extra ottomans around it.

If you have a couch with a loveseat beside it you ll want the area rug centered on the couch at the very least. Most likely it will be an 8 x 10 that works for your space or you could look at an 8 square. Rather than using a traditional coffee table you can use the ottoman as the alternative. Ideally you want to the front legs of the sofa to sit on the rug and you want the rug to be at least as large as the sofa.

Centering the rug in the l of your sectional sofa one rule of thumb when placing an area rug is to have an even amount of space around it. In this living room by lauren nelson design only the front legs of the sofa sit on the rug while the placement of the chairs leaves their bases entirely on the rug. The length of your area rug should be centered on your longest piece of furniture.