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Is this rug placement okay?

10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago

Just got a Turkish rug and I'm wondering how I should reorient my teeny tiny apartment. Should I move my cow hide out or over? Do you like the placement of the rug? Sorry the lighting isn't great!

Comments (17)

  • 10 years ago

    Hard to tell without seeing the rest of the room and how much space is left uncovered by the rug. I adore cowhide rugs, but that one seems awkwardly placed, especially so close to the other.

  • PRO
    10 years ago

    Is there room to move the sofa to the left or to the opposite wall. The area rug isn't well proportioned for that sofa the way it is positioned as too much of the rug is on the left....but it may work in a different area with less of the sofa sitting on it and a chair on either side of the sofa facing each other. OOPS didn't see the cowhide rug.The photo is quite dark. I don't like the ides of the 2 rugs next to each other. What's to the left of the table and chairs? Do I see another chair? (green) Can you post more photos?

    Is that a TV opposite the sofa? Can you easily put it on the wall where the sofa is now? I'd rather walk into the apartment and see a sofa and painting than a TV.

    You could also put the cowhide on an angle in front of the sofa and move the the Turkish one under the table and beyond...if there's space. Or put 1 away til you have a larger space or use one in the bedroom.

    If the suggestions above don't work, pull the Turkish rug way out from under the sofa so that just the legs are sitting on it. Don't worry if you step on it as soon as you enter the room. Make sure to put some double-sided tape under it in the doorway so no one trips! If you have the sofa jammed to the right ( when you are looking at the photo) because of where the TV is, get a longer cord and move everything to the left. ...you still have space before you get close to the entrance door.

    Best of luck,

  • 10 years ago

    Thank you! Maybe submitting more photos will help. It's a studio so very small!

  • 10 years ago

    The rug seems a little oversized but I would try pulling it forward from under the sofa a bit and putting the cowhide more over it in a bohemian way

  • 10 years ago

    The rug is too big where you have it. How about putting it under the bed?

  • 10 years ago

    This is from eons (almost 2 years) ago. The space looks much larger without a rug.


  • 10 years ago

    Yes, I agree with groveraxle. The room is larger without the Turkish rug. You might use the cowhide partially under the bed and extending out into the space left of the bed. Can your black bookcase be moved to the wall right of the sofa with the table and chairs where the sofa is and the sofa under the AC unit? Looks like you can move the swagged light fixture wherever you need it.

  • 10 years ago

    There isn't a ton of room to the left of the bed to be honest

  • 10 years ago

    i wonder if I can put it under the table and chairs and have it extend to the right of the bed? Then move the cowhide under the sofa? Essentially the Turkish rug would swap places with the cow hide

  • 10 years ago

  • 10 years ago

    No to that last arrangement. Try running it from the wall with the headboard under the table and toward the front door. Leave some floor space around it if you can. Then lose the cowhide.


    Or leave it under the sofa (though it really is too long) and move the cowhide into the bedroom.


    You've got too much rug in too little space, and crowding them together isn't working.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Push the turkish one a little more under the sofa, and the cowide more towards the bed(like under it even). I have no idea if itll work but it costs nothing to try

  • 10 years ago

    If the Turkish one were only two feet longer than the sofa it could work. It looks to be an older rug designed for a wide foyer/entry hall in a home of the past. I don't care for the two rugs together. I would use the cowhide under the sofa in cold weather and do without a rug when it is warm.

  • 10 years ago

    I could always move it out until I move into a larger space and get a smaller one in the interim. My worry was that my floors looked to bare, but better bare than cluttered?

  • 10 years ago

    Yes, better bare than cluttered.

  • PRO
    10 years ago

    I agree with several others that your space is too small for these two rugs. They both look to be nice rugs but I actually prefer the cowhide rug in this room. It is hard to tell by the pictures but can it be centred more in the space so that there is more equal space between the rug and the wall?

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