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The one with the brown accents. The other one looks too cool and too gray. You'll have a lot of brown in your room, it makes sense to have a little brown in your rug.

The one with a bit more brown is much better. It has more warmth, depth, and more negative space. The motif is not as crammed together.

Depends on the furniture.

It’s a poster rice bed. Very traditional

if you want to highlight the blue in the room choose the blue, if you are more interested in highlighting dark, choose the brown. If it's under the bed, you are only going to see the border.

Meh

I don't see anything else you're planning for the decor but between the two rugs you show I prefer the one below.

Sorry..neither. In pictures anyway, they feel heavy/busy.

Try to imagine their influence on a large scale + dark walnut floors + bed/other (dark?) furniture. What do you think of a softer feel?

I’d go lighter, complementing the wall color.

I did a mock up of your room based on the information you shared with us.

Dark walnut floors.

Dark wood rice bed.

White bedding.

I think you can do better than your current choices.

A four poster is always a beautiful statement. It need not dictate, and should depend on the whole of the style/flavor you want....

I wouldn't choose either of them--they look very similar and gray.

I'd get a rug with more vibrant colors.

Do you think this is too much color?

Additional image I saw from a review

Additional image I saw from a review

Nothing is too much color! If you want the Persian flavor? Have it! It's lovely! Beautiful with fresh white linens...

What is the REST of the room? I don't mean to peck you to death, but the other elements contribute to the feel of your space! That means side tables, lamps to read by and make a glow. Will you have a tv? Where? Window treatments?

You haven't posted and inspo pic, beyond a rug and telling us the bed is rice, four poster.

Make yourself a mood board! : ) Side tables need not be dark wood or a match! Even a blue!

A S I have that exact rug! I love the colors. I think it would look great with the things you told us about. It's bold and a big change from what you were previously considering!

I would order a small, easily returnable size so you can see it in person. It's a screen print, not woven, so it's thinner than an average rug and may not be what you had in mind.

I agree with everyone that a rug with more colour would be quite nice in your room with the white linen, dark wood, etc.

Perhaps this might help regarding effects.

I like soothing, restful colors in a bedroom; no brights, especially red. (Yes, I know you won't see colors in the dark, but you do see them when you're preparing for bed.) I would choose a lighter rug, like the last one in Maureen's post.

I thought your first 2 options were really quite nice and I went back and forth with which I preferred.

I think the more colorful one is stunning...and I don't think it will be too vibrant or overpowering but it's your room.... It is gorgeous.

Sample 1

Room (still needs poly)

Sample 2

Oh those last two would be smashing in your beautiful room!!!

so the lighter one is ok too? So happy to hear

Sample 2 is two pictures of the same rug, correct?

I like that better than the cream, brown and gray, by far, but it is a big change from what you were initially considering.

Have you seen any "happy mediums" that you like?

Look, either the gray/brown/beige one or the colorful one will work in your space. It's all a matter of preference. I personally like the colorful ones, but others like the neutral ones. Whichever one you select, just make sure it's the right size, and everything else you choose goes with it. It's your house, and you need to decide which style you like better.

The FEAR of definite color is very real. I don't know all the reasons. Maybe it is some perverse notion that an all neutral palette means avoiding "mistakes". I'd then have to ask....what's a mistake?

Is it the commitment factor? If I use a color, I will be forever stuck with the color, but if I use all neutrals I can do "anything" and anything will look good!

That's not always true! Neutral is, for most folks, harder to pull off successfully! Harder to avoid the yawn room. It requires more texture, more interest beyond color, despite neutral IS a color and may use shades of all the neutrals.

Had this client a couple years ago. His bedroom drove me 100% nuts. All matching Stickley, EVERY single piece. Sad tan walls, with that slight pantyhose tone. A builder beige carpet, an odd shape "unfriendly to any area rug"....( grrrrr, his words, no to hardwood )

When it came time for the second floor big paint job, carpet update, paint etc, I begged. Puleeeeze, let me change this for you. This process led to four solid days of wait and see deliberation. " Show me"......"Okay, roll a little here".....", I don't know"...."well okay, roll just this wall" .." I need to live with it a bit" ....

Finally, the smashing blue. Some new bedding, and a favorite artwork that came alive. Windows took a while, not in the pic, new roman shades were still mia.

Does he LOVE it? Yes.

To the op? The room is more than just the rug..more than just the bed . It's the whole, and what you want. We cannot tell you what to want.

Yes, neutrals can be more difficult to use in a room. All neutrals are derivatives of an underlying hue, made by adding white, black or gray to the pure color. And it's difficult to determine what the underlying hue is in many cases. So if you mix neutrals with different underlying hues, you might get a pleasing effect, but in most cases not. So then you come here to the Design Dilemmas page asking for help on how to fix it.

Here's a living room in a home where the neutral palette is done to perfection. Note the textures, mix of woods, organic materials, and black/white contrast:

Here's a link where you can view the entire home:

https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/john-tanner-provence-house

Found a rug I love! Question now is where do I hang art? The picture frame moulding is throwing me off

Ignore bedding and exposed box spring. I ordered a new mattress. It will sit lower and I’ll need a bed skirt to cover the bottom support legs

I’m considering these pieces. Thoughts?

One more view

Can you share a link to the rug? You will get more help........

Opinion of one? Calm and serenity are great! Tonal is great. Traditional as well! You're not "there" in a GREAT way just yet. Lose the fear: )

https://amzn.to/469w63w.

That’s it in beige/cream

I love the colors in the artwork you showed. Would love to see more of those colors in the room.

The ask: " Which rug is better?"

We ask........better for what? The bed is a neutral. The walls are neutral. The wood flooring is a NEUTRAL.

All above will gleefully accept any rug you select.

The room will take any art you may love.

The question here is, what do YOU want for a final flavor in the room?!

If you want just a "plain white duvet and a dust ruffle to hide supports", you can do that.

Were I TO WANT that look? I might want that bed to be sitting on a neutral base, a ton of collected art on the walls, and the fresh white linens.

Or......I might want a very colorful rug, the very "collected and abundant" art, and the all white linens!

What I may love has no place in your room, unless you love what I love. I happen to love serenity with a dose of color.

" Where do I hang the art"?

The walls are molding detailed. You can make that the "thing", play it up, or you can IGNORE, hang what you love, wherever you find pleasing. Playing it up would mean selecting FOR the individual spaces created with the molding.

You're "confining" the room to the length of a wall, defined by an entry to a bath.

What is planned over here?

I'd have done a larger rug.

Unless you NEED the ceiling fan? Remove it, trade for a white fan to disappear, lose the light kit in total.

At this point? Many of us are not certain what you want, beyond approval of a thing that must please YOU. The rug? Incidental in the mock below, close enough colors and same idea.

JMO As to dressing the bed, and what a finished room may look like.

At this point? You do you. Or inform what a finished and inviting bedroom feels like to you. Post an inspo....! Make a mood....that suits you.

If you are asking me, if where you are now feels inviting or finished. It isn't, for ME: )