View from FLR

From Master Bedroom door looking towards FLR.

It's simple, make sure if a guest pulls out a chair to sit, when he/she pulls it back in to them it does not pulls your rug also, in otherwords big enough to not be caught on chair legs, in your case a round may work better?

Well, as someone for whom traditional rug sizes won't work, here's my story. We have a fixed table which is 3x8. Perfection would be a 7x12, but then the rug is dangerously close to the foyer or on the fireplace hearth. A 9x12 is over the AC register and leaves no space for any other furniture.

So, we went with the 8x10 since *guests* will be able to pull their chairs out with out getting caught on the rug, and the *host and hostess* will just deal with it because the hostess wants a china cabinet.

Our rug doesn't read as a postage stamp with a table balanced on it. I think that's the look you have to avoid if you want to break the rug rule of having that 2' of chair moving room.

That tile floor looks mighty easy to clean, MBoston! Sure you want a rug?

I do like being able to back the chair away and have all chair legs on the rug, and I don't know that your space allows for one that large without filling the whole room in with rug, which you don't want to do. You need to see some floor around the rug. As Grl says, you also don't want that "postage stamp" look that results from having a too small rug!

Would you consider having a rug cut and bound? That is what we did. We had a border rug made to order and fit our L shape dining and living room.
They actually came to measure and they decided on the length and width that would work.

Better to have no rug than one that is too small IMO. I like 36" on each side of the table as that gives sufficient space for a chair to be pushed back. So a 9'x12' would be ideal with your size table altho an 8'x10' would be OK.

A 5'4"wide x 7'8" would be a constant source of annoyance and the edges would wear if that table is used much. Also I don't think it enhances a nice dining room to have a too-small rug.

I just can't see a 9x12 in there as that would then mean the carpet going into the walkway to our bedroom. I do have a runner there now if the carpet has any kind of pattern to it on the edges, I think that would look off.

Since the DR part is basically 10'8" x 10'8", there would only be a foot on each side of the table with the width with a 8X10. That means the back legs of the china cabinet would be off the rug and the front would be on it. Perhaps the same thing with the buffet on one corner.

I found an octagonal one that is 7'9" that I was hoping would work. That seemed to work when I pulled out the chairs and sat back down. I guess because you come from the LR into that narrower part of the room, I think the larger the rug is the more croweded it would look, esp. with all the tile that is showing in the LR.

BTW, I love my tile, it doesn't show abit of dirt and is easy to damp mop but just wanted to add a little warmth to the room.

Thanks for all the suggestions, keep them coming.

T

I think an 8x10 would work if you did a little rearranging. Can the chandelier be swagged? Because then you could do something like this.

Never thought of that, Geokid. Our present one could not, I don't think. I'd like to match the design of the rug we have in the LR but use the ivory one instead of the burgandy in the octangal shape. I think I would be happy with it, even though it is smaller than the 8X10. Just wish JCP hadn't changed their pricing system. The rugs are never on sale now. It would cost me almost double what I paid for the LR rug.