I agree with you about ordering rugs online...

I read a great tip here to order the very smallest offered to keep shipping costs (and hauling it to the post office!) down. Then return for the size you need...

As I said, if it were me, knowing what I know about Viscose, I would return it. But, I know how hard you have worked to get this done and I am trying to help you but maybe this just needs to wait until after Christmas. Concentrate on your family and having fun.

Yes, many have Viscose in them but in smaller doses. They do give that really silky wonderful feel. Did I ever share my favorite article on rugs and carpets with you? If not, I'll post it. You can search it on Houzz, it is one of their articles. Title: "How to Get New Carpeting", but it describes all the different fibers and their pros and cons. Author: Laura Gaskill, Dec. 21, 2015.

Oh definitely. Especially when you are trying to juggle young ones, hubby, holiday stuff. Too much!

Kristin, it's wool but isn't casual. It's gorgeous. Get a sample from PB, though the sample doesn't do it justice.

If you want something low pile, let me find it. I have something in mind.

Something along these lines

Stunning wallpaper. Just a thought to share: whatever you decide to place on that wall can be hung from the crown molding so you don't need to put nails in the wallpaper itself. Also like the idea of a set of three somethings whether they are mirrors or framed photos (as suggested earlier) with wide mats, but something that does not detract.

Second rug is on eBay. I just googled grey overdyed rug. You can probably choose a color too.

the floor lamp really doesn't belong in dining room

im thinking you could find one and paint it.

i feel like its too modern in some way.

I would do an art-deco style in there...but I would wait until you're firm on the rug first.

Get your rug settled on first. I think you lean toward more monochromatic looks (wallpaper is really monochromatic when you think about it) so gray rug in the very subtle colorations and then silver/gray silk drapes would make a very soft, look. It would also be a plain background to work with from the great room perspective. You could bring some of those blues from the great rom into the dining room in the form of blue, white and green hydrangeas in a flower arrangement for the table for example. I think you would like that look the best. I do not favor mirrors on your wallpaper wall. Big prints with wide white matting would look classic and not fight with the wallpaper. Mirrors in dining rooms are usually not a good idea. Especially when that mirror won't reflect anything but the hallway wall right? But, hey, it is your room, so you have to make YOU happy! I think we have decided the rug goes back!? Right?

I think you should do ivory curtains or the light color from wallpaper. Hung on rings and not grommet

IMO Ivory will just not work. They will look dingy with the grays in the room. I could be wrong, and you could get some and try, but I think the printed ones you had were light ivory background? I don't think we liked those. If you want the monochromatic look stick with silver/grays. Lighter ones would be good.

I was thinking the light color that's on the printed lamp shade. Is that white or ivory? It looks nice against the wallpaper

Yikes girl! I have to take some time to digest all your thoughts. I think I like the rug turned to the darker side. On the art, you have crown molding, and there are devices that allow you to hang art from the molding which would be better than punching holes in your wallpaper. BUT! For right now, with your chandelier and a nice "long, tall in the middle" tablescape, and the busy print of the wallpaper I think it would be fine to leave the wallpapered wall blank. Then hang your art on the painted short wall.

food for thought, adding some color in the rug might bring you some more inspiration

or no rug? do you really need a rug in this space?

Kristin has blue and white in her great room which is about 6 ft from the open dining room. So that has to be considered. I like the idea of bringing some blue in, but not so sure about yellow.

Ya know, I think no rug is a great idea. I don't like how the chairs are going to catch on the rug when the guest slides back, and it is just not working. That is usually a sign that means "don't do it"! Sometimes you just have to stop hitting your head against the wall! Why don't we concentrate on tablescape and drapes and hang the pictures you already have for the short wall? Are we making this too hard!?

I think blue yellow and gray can play together. i also think, a bold color might de focus the wallpaper a bit.

I think a buffet with lamps on the ends and a statement piece mirror in the middle would be gorgeous! I recently went to a party at an Interior Designer's house and she had the most amazing mirror on her buffet that went all the way to the ceiling, it was a show stopper!

I love the drapes too!!

That tripod needs to move out of the dining room. It doesn't matter what the shade matches. It totally fights with your beautiful chandelier. It makes the room off balance.

They look good!! Well done. Not easy to get three pictures level! Nice view from this angle too!

Your triptych looks fine but a larger, more vertical painting would be more dramatic.

if you have any paint left you should paint that vent on the small picture wall.

btw the pictures look great!