Why don't you use a solid darker carpet that will pop everything up.

So, what else is going on in the room? Wall color, art, etc.

I would not choose a rug to go with ottomans, which are immaterial in your design scheme. Sofa is your largest piece, design around it.

Thanks - overall design scheme attached. Trying to replace the rug.

Different view

www.rugs-direct.com has a visualizer.

I think the darker warmer tones look better with your beautiful furniture. However some of your artwork seems to clash with my suggestions. I tried dark green rugs too but they weren’t as good IMO.

No, it is not too busy and not too much. Mixing patterns is fine. But, the rug underwhelms. Here are a few other suggestions from Room and Board. They too have a QR code for each product so you can see it in your room.

First.....figure out what is bugging you?

May I say..............you maybe goofed? Recover the ottomans, There's nothing really wrong with the rug OR the room!

Find a nice solid for the ottomans .....even the soft "white" in your rug and recover?

Trying to figure out what is bugging you.....: ) Could it be you need some blue, as the single piece of art and the screen save on the tv are wanting to be acknowledged? The warmth of the background on the book cases?

Rug?

I think you jumped a gun on the ottomans: )

Maybe you need the hit of the blues if you are looking for change, and even then......make sure you aren't painting yourself further into a gray corner?

( we can't see the chair very well. btw)

^^^ Just asking:....? is it that? The hit of another color?

I'd also like to say that your built-ins are beautiful--love the natural wood shelving.

One thing I'd change is the little round table in the "L" between the sofas. You could use something more substantial there.

You might also add some floor/table lamps for softer lighting. Overhead lighting in living or family rooms can be a bit harsh.

Thank you all for your help! Per your recommendations, I’ve added a touch a blue and moved an end table! Thank you! Responding to “what’s bugging you?” It’s the patterned ottomans sitting on a patterned rug. I was thinking maybe a light solid (lighter fleck in the couch and background of the fabric on the ottomans) or a more muted pattern. The window is northfacing so the room can be dark. There is a standing lamp not in the picture, can lights, a celing light and picture lights on the book cases. Typically, I have them all on and dimmed. Attaching a close up of the patterns playing together that seems too much - but it’s not bugging me as much as it did before I added the blue pillows (and changed the screen saver on my TV). The ottomans and couch cannot be returned/exchanged but the rug can be exchanged at Arhaus if I can find a new one by Tuesday.

From "what's bugging you" ......and "maybe you need a hit of BLUE"?

You didn't mention the rug had to come from Arhaus???"Lido below

Which also changes up the scale between the two patterns with a less muddy look in the rug while keeping the warmth of the built ins

PS .........maybe change the screensaver back ?

My point here is you put a "demanding " piece of art next to the window. It is ONLY demanding as you have no other wall decor other than the built ins and they read very warm, organic as does any brick and mortar Arhaus you'd enter, anywhere in the USA. You balanced that with the screen saver, right?

So it wasn't just the ottomans, it was the whole: Unless you're going to go plain, just texture and a nice ivory something rug at Arhaus? I think its Lido as a replacement

Or bite a bullet, and recover the ottomans to a PLAIN. as maybe your tolerance for patter mix, is lower than you believe: )

Or leave everything as is and change out the art? It is very demanding in the space.

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She still won't love the ottomans WITH the original rug: ) ?

Lido rug brings in the "demanding" focal point,

and this........

Actually, the rug you have seems to work rather well. If you are going to replace it will suggest you go with a classic oriental rug with color. Think I will suggest an oriental rug that incorporates lots of red. Should give the room a needed pop of color and warmth.

Only OP can say if they truly hate the rug - I think everything looks great (and I actually don’t mind the art). If the art is beloved by OP and they are ok w the rug I’d say just replace the khaki green pillows to something that incorporates more color (the blue of the art for sure and maybe mixed with green and beige, etc)….a great pillow is out there that marries it all.

Thanks again for your help! You all see things and think thoughts that do not occur to me. I’m leaning toward grabbing the rug sample suggested and seeing how it looks - it’s a bigger pattern so that may help but fringe (correction as suggested) is a bit of a pet peeve for me. A cream rug is OK - just kinda bland and does nothing for the sofa but is a possibility. I agree that the loaden green pillows are dark (we chose them for the first rug which was the arhaus Sadie which was indeed dark and very busy). I also agree with the person who said I may have goofed or jumped the gun on the fabric for the ottomans - Recovering in a solid is certainly an option. A few of you don’t mind the two patterns so I could also be hyper-focusing and losing sight of the big picture (missing the forest by focusing on a tree). I may just live with it and search for the perfect pillows to pull the room together as another suggested. This house is a work in progress! The attached pictures give you an idea of where we have come - it was a strange room that had been two rooms with a fireplace in the middle and a small greenhouse window where the picure window is now. Out of all the decisions that needed making, this is the first goof and I’m hearing y’all say it’s either fixable or not terrible. Thank you again for all of the new ideas and suggestions to test - different rug, recover ottomans, find new pillows and art! Thanks again!

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There are no "tassels" on the rug. that is fringe. You can REMOVE that fringe, appears to be top sewn to the rug.

You're turning simple into brain surgery : ?

If you loved all else, UNTIL you set the ottomans in place? Then you have your answer. Remove them from the room, take a new picture all angles. Post all the angles. Or?

Remove them from in front of the fire, and put them in front of the slider as pull up seats!

Perhaps it is because they are directly on the rug?

If that doesn't work? Then it follows that you maybe you just hate the that pattern on the ottomans, So get five yards of a solid fabric,, take them to an upholstery shop and shake out a few moths and redo them!

There was a reason you liked the art. There was a reason you selected a particular screen saver for the tv.

When you are lost in the woods, you stop, and figure out where you made a wrong turn.

Do as above. just remove the "offenders" and take more pics all angle. Show the kitchen we can't see....?

I love this room and the art but since you are open to opinions the seascape is hung too low.

You have done a great job of improving the room! It looks so much nicer than what you started with - that original FP was awful. Adding the cabinets + shelving on both sides took care of the FP looking "lonely" just hanging out there between the two rooms - the two rooms look unified into one room now.

I like the rug that Jan has suggested - the larger scale + extra colors work much better with your ottomans. While recovering the ottomans would open up a lot of possibilities, their odd shape (which I really like) might make them expensive to reupholster (which would be okay to incur the $$ if the ottomans were new).

I love the rug that Jan suggested. The blue adds a little bit of needed color, and the warm color in the pattern ties in with your built ins. The larger scaled pattern works well with the tighter pattern of your ottomans. I would try a sample of that rug before deciding to reupholster the ottomans.

^^ me too! : )

No clue WHAT happens overnight, that I am up every Friday.....at three am.