Very helpful. Thank you!

Very nice furniture! Make sure at least the front legs of all the furniture are on the rug. Bigger is better!

Because you have the sofa table behind the sofa, I like the first option in the picture that Bev attached. Really pretty room!!

Thank you! A 9 x 12 would allow the front part of all the furniture to be placed on the rug. I don't think I would be able to find a large enough rug to fit all of the furniture without spending an arm and a leg.

Thanks for the compliments on the furniture! We worked so hard picking it out. Now to figure out what color to paint the brick.

You have a nice living room, but I think the issue is the 2 wood framed chairs on the right of the photo. If you did a very large rug then all the furniture would be on it, but you would end up with a lot of open space on this side of the coffee table. If you did a smaller rug with only the front feet on the rug then the wood framed chair closest to the camera would not be on the rug but the other one would. That would look funny. What if you put the front feet of the sofa and all the coffee table on the rug, but left the wood framed chairs off the rug? That way you wouldn't need such a large (expensive) rug, and the wood framed chairs are really their own thing.

When we get our rug in, we can try it and see how it looks!

You could easily do a rug with some blue in it since you have blue in various places around the room.

I would go with modern rug

I would center the wall art with sectional, not wall.

Usually first comes rug, then accent pillows.

I like this one!

I would agree with Danielle! Would you mind sharing where your couch is from? Great choice!

Love your spool chairs! Where did you get them?

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I think you should move the sectional a foot, or more, back, closer to the wall with the painting. This will give your chairs a bit more breathing space between the sofa and fireplace.

Pottery barn $599

Following to see how you finish your lovely room.

Yes, I got the chairs from Ballard, the sectional from Pottery Barn (in sunbrella fabric), and the pillows from Ballard. I spent many hours looking for the perfect sectional and am pretty happy with this one.

At one point, we did have a silver rug in there. It just seemed a little too silver with the gray walls. My husband would tell me every day that it clashed and I got tired of hearing it! Here's a picture.

Do you all think the ficus tree in the corner is the right top/fullness of tree for that spot?

Hi Lydia-

Thank you for telling me the source for your chairs, and everyone else, thank you too.

Your ficus looks great there. I have had many over the years, I have killed them all!

If you can keep your alive, more power to you.

I like how celerygirl's art suggestions pick up the colors in your throw pillows, however one suggestion, I wouldn't do a tree for the art if you are keeping the ficus there, that is too much repetition of form right next to each other.

About rugs-

Have you thought about a handmade oriental rug?

You can get a knotted one such as a Persian or a woven one like a nomadic or kilim and they can have all types of different motifs, many have warm red tones, and they are made of good wool and will last for hundreds of years and are very sturdy and are made with real vegetable (not synthetic) dyes.

These days they are not exorbitantly expensive at all, you can get one for the same price as a machine made rug, and there is no comparison in quality and heritage.

Here are a few examples.

Push the sectional back against the wall. Center the art on the sectional. Pull the end table forward to be of use to someone using that end of the sofa or the chair beside it. End table might be better sideways; you'll never use the drawer anyway. Push the chairs closer to the end table/wall. (They're 'floating' and obstructing your path in front of the fireplace.) I'm not thrilled to see Three Identical Lamps.

Lydia, do you mind telling us the name of your wall color? Our living room setting looks similar to yours, and I love the paint color you chose!
As far as the rug, I usually lean towards neutral, "passive" pieces that blend easily with any decor, however I really liked the red rugs (for instance) suggested above. The furniture you picked is beautiful, and I think a rich, saturated rug color will enhance and pull the room together without overpowering it. Good luck!

Sure! It's SW repose gray. Our trim is BM white dove. In person, it has more of a gray/bluish tint.

I love the suggested red rugs! Thank you so much for the education.

Loobab, where would I buy handmade oriental rugs that I could see in person, beforehand, local specialty shops?

Also, the ficus is fake:)

Loobab, your comment about how there shouldn't be two trees right next to each other is well taken. I can see what you mean.

BoldEgo, maybe a rug with more reds will do just what we need to tie in the brown brick and cream couch/gray walls and make the two styles blend. Thanks so much, everyone!!!

Hi Lydia-

I don't know where you live.

Many cities have shops to purchase the real thing.

But before you even think about buying anything, please educate yourself.

You can do it online, or you can read it in books.

Read about the carpets, how they are made, what they look like, what they should look like, and what are the signs of quality, what are the signs of a machine-made rug vs a hand made rug.

Then after you have studies, then go into the shops, and don't bring any money or credit cards. For real!!!

With everything in your brain, and your hands very clean, look at the rugs, and think about their quality, what is awesome, great, good, and what you wouldn't wrap a body in cause it's a cheap machine-made copy.

When the salesman comes over to you, be very polite and say, Oh, I am not buying right now, I will at some time in the future. Right now, I need to educate myself all about these wonderful carpets.

I suggest you do this at a time when the store isn't very busy. This way, the salesman can actually give you some time, and if you are lucky he is a nice person and will want to share some of his knowledge with you, and you can learn a lot that way.

Do this at every carpet store in every city that is a reasonable driving distance from you.

If this seems like a lot of work, well it is a bit of work.

Think of it as learning how to buy a diamond and shopping for one

Years ago, a Persian hand-knotted carpet often cost more than many people's engagement rings, too.

No more, thanks to the vagaries of politics and import tariffs and embargos, etc.

Don't think of it as work, think of it as an art lesson. Decorative arts, to be precise.

Do you have any friends that are Persian or Turkish that can shop with you?

They know rugs like Americans know baseball.

Wow, thank you for the explanation! I do have a friend who owns a rug shop in Jacksonville I can talk to. Appreciate it.

We recently inherited my husband’s grandmother’s huge Persian rug. Needless to say we are thrilled with it and are adjusting our decor to work with it. Luckily I have 2 very good friends who are extremely knowledgeable about this type of rug. I since have decided to add a few more smaller examples to my home. My one friend and I spend quite a bit of time on Etsy looking at rugs and I have bought 3 since. Two from Etsy and one from esalerugs.com. All were as good or even better than I expected.

Annette-
It must have cost a fortune to ship the rugs you purchased on Etsy!