Art-ology

Everybody wishes they had more space to live and to work in, and with beautiful rugs, you can trick the eye – and more easily organize the spaces you do have – with a few easy design techniques known to the world’s smartest and most forward-thinking decorators. And now you’ll know them, too! Try these tips if, for space reasons, you need to combine the uses of certain rooms in your home, such as the guest bedroom/home office:

Tip #1:

On the same wall that you place the bed for your guest room/office, nudge an attractive area rug right up under the bed, so that it leaves a rug pattern on each side of the bed. Cold tootsies should always be comforted when they leave the warm bed, and it will look poorly-planned if the area rug is hidden on the sides, but visible on the ends. Choose colors to unify the space, maximizing the opportunity to see each part of the space for the purpose it is intended.

Tip #2:

Remember to use your tape measure before you order all your area rugs to avoid the annoying hassle of having to ship area rugs back after discovering they don’t fit the space properly. An Abingdon Rug Outlet service agent can always help you choose the right size for your space, so just ask away! Our online and phone design and sales consulting services are free, as is our shipping, in many cases.

Tip #3:

Now, with a completely different, but obviously complimentary area rugs (choose a new texture, shape, pattern or a complimentary, opposite color), choose a different space in the room, placing the office desk on a diagonal, right on top of the rug. Make sure the rug is just wide and long enough to cover the surface area the desk and your office chair will cover.

Tip #4:

If space is really tight, any old dresser, or file cabinet tucked neatly inside the closet provides you with more storage without taking up any floor space in the room. This trick also hides an unsightly piece of furniture while still allowing for its needed function to be fulfilled. Smart!

Tip #5

If the room is larger, but you still need to use it for two separate objectives, you can use circular rugs to create cool circular spaces. Angular, square spaces are often under-utilized. And who wants to be jammed into a corner? With a more circular space created optically (not architecturally), with a large circular area rug, you will easily achieve a wide and useable area that’s also soft around the edges.

Consider placing bookshelves and electronics up against the walls, but almost always avoid lining up furniture in that way. This is a common decorating error that makes your space look unoriginal and often uninviting. Imagine all your seating, conversational and cooperative social areas within the circle, and put all the tools you use to facilitate the use of the room (i.e.: lamps, shelves, stereo systems, TV, and small decorative tables, etc.) outside the circle.

Voila! A home office/bedroom set-up that looks amazing and doesn’t confuse or awkwardly clutter up your space. All for less than two cans of paint in many cases. Using the tips above, it will look like you consulted an interior designer, and with your own unique flair.

If you ever want help choosing different, but complimentary area rugs for any space, a service agent at Abingdon Rug Outlet is ready to help you on the phone – or online – any day of the week! It would be simply impossible not to find something you adore from the active inventory of more than 20,000 high-quality, discount area rugs at www.abingdonrugoutlet.com. Abingdon Rug Outlet offers gorgeous, designer, discount rugs to suit even the most discriminating tastes and budgets – and in every style, size, color combination, material, and decorative design you can conjure up.