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Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms

Determining carpets for the living room involves an equation—space + budget + approach—but no set formula. The most common course is to have the rug take the lead in the decorating scheme. The bigger the room and the better the quality of carpet, the more likely that the rug will set the mood and dictate the palette.
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In a living room with walls paneled in a cool
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The overscaled yet fanciful pattern of an Aubusson rug suits the grand proportions and elegant furnishings in a living room by Suzanne Rheinstein.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
An antique Sarouk rug atop cobalt blue wall-to-wall carpeting knits together the blues and reds in a living room by McGeehan Design.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Steven Gambrel plays off a fireplace surround’s variegated marble with a custom carpet from the Very Antique Collection.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
A trellis of ribbons and roses woven into a pale pink custom Savonnerie rug sets the tone for other pastel furnishings in a living room by Michael Simon.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The tendrils and blossoms of a custom Aubusson rug from the Veronica Collection reinforce the fresh spring feel of a living room by Linda Ruderman.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
In a living room by Markham Roberts the
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
In a richly decorated living room by Michael Smith, a custom Alpuhara rug adds yet another pattern while its palette of ivory and blues counters darker tones.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
In Woody Allen’s living room, decorated by Steven Shadley, an antique Aubusson carpet partners with walls in similar warm tones to offset the deeper shades of velvet chairs and walnut bookcases.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Alexa Hampton used a custom hand-knotted carpet of soft blue and warm brown to tie together the wall and sofa colors and to introduce pattern to balance the solids.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
In a living room by Trisha Reger the tracery in a custom handmade rug complements the delicate form of the coffee table and the fine details in the chair upholstery fabric.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Witmer Design used a pale custom handmade rug to establish a more intimate seating area within a lofty living room with dark walls and floor.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Inspired by museum documents as well as actual antique rugs, reproduction carpets know no limits. Among them, clockwise from left, are an oriental in soft green, a Kelim in traditional reds and blues, a Persian with stylized flowers and vines, and a Savonnerie in a classic pastel palette.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The custom French linen ivory carpet in a living room by Nancy Braithwaite lends a traditionally furnished room a thoroughly modern air.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
For his own living room, Darryl Carter used a Saranac carpet in butte tan and white upholstery fabric to keep the focus on furniture form.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
In a living room by Avondale Design where a grand piano only adds to the weightiness of the wood bookcases and beamed ceiling, the light tone-on-tone Parkshim carpet provides a welcome counterbalance.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
In a living room by Eberlein Design, an Everest area rug with a coordinating border behaves like the wallpaper, providing overall pattern while letting natural wood shine.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
To calm a living room as richly decorated as a Victorian parlor, the Jeffrey Design Group turned to a custom Wilton carpet.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The arcs carved into a custom hand-tufted carpet subtly complement the Art Deco spirit that Susan Winton-Feinberg of Walter Herz Interiors brings to a glamorous living room.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
For a family-friendly living area in Elton John’s house, designed by Martyn Lawrence Bullard, a patchwork cowhide rug is as rough and tumble, and indestructible, as a leather sectional.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
A custom mohair rug adds another layer of softness to the leather, fur, and linen in a living room by Ann Holden.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Planes of solid color and material, including a
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Planes of solid color and material, including a
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
A Tibetan rug from the Thomas Jayne Collection maintains the symmetry of a room by the designer while its starbursts bring levity to the formal arrangement.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Sherrill Canet designed a jazzy rug—the Bargello pattern in silver— to augment the syncopation of brass accents in a living room with deep blue walls.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Barry Goralnick designed the Wavy Gravy hand-tufted Tibetan carpet specifically to complement mid-century modern furnishings like those in this living room.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The brisk pattern and muted colors (undyed sheep wool) of a kilim rug from the Giza Collection suit a living room by Kelter Schwartz that is dominated by natural woods.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The rigorously consistent solids and voids of a sculpted carpet from the Dorjee Collection offset the irregular pockets of a weighty coffee table of burled wood in a living room by Marie Flanigan.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The plushness of a custom hand-knotted area rug in
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The ribs of a Zavala sisal carpet extend the fringe of an upholstered bench and bring welcome texture to a living room with smooth white walls by Carrier and Company.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Jeffrey Bilhuber used rugs in the Sorrento pattern bound with leather laces to create conversational islands within the vast living room of John and Andrea Stark’s penthouse apartment.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
A zebra hide outlined in black and laid atop a Natura sisal carpet in silver delivers an extra visual treat at the base of glass coffee tables in a living room by Triangle Interiors.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Like the bobbin chairs in a driftwood finish, Charlotte Moss’s Shangri La woven sisal carpet softens the straight lines of a living room by Munger Interiors.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Except for the wall surfaces, pattern is everywhere in this interior by Mark Hampton, including the textured Clay Stria sisal carpet in almond from the Alexa Hampton Collection.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Wild things are overhead (an antler chandelier) and underfoot (Antelope Ax carpet in chocolate) in an otherwise traditionally furnished great room by Amy Thebault.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The abstracted leopard pattern of Namir carpeting, along with a fur throw and textiles in lively motifs, temper the formality of a traditionally paneled living room decorated by Markham Roberts.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
In a space as colorful and eclectic as this living room by Thomas Britt, the floor would be lost without a coat—like the Linen Panther carpet— that measures up.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Like the bread of a sandwich with spicy fillings, the Arabesque carpet in Ashley Stark Kenner’s den is a twin of the wood ceiling inset in color, texture, and size.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
In a living room by Martyn Lawrence Bullard that is a free- wheeling mélange of form and pattern, a rug pieced together from zebra hides seems tame.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The tight, labyrinthine squares of a wool bouclé Park Square carpet in white and gray provide a consistent geometric foundation for the many and varied furnishings in this living room.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The small-scale white-and-brown grid of a Les Damiers carpet knits together dark wood walls and a white marble fireplace in a living room by Jan Showers.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Jan Showers chose the Ellipse carpet from the Sherrill Canet Collection to give a calm living room a dose of snappy attitude.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The interlocking Ys of the Yogi pattern from the David Hicks Collection lend extra dynamism to an already mod living room by Kapito Muller.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Howard Slatkin’s design for his hand-tufted Liliane carpet captures the same lighthearted yet luxurious esprit as that of the eighteenth-century Venetian mirror he hung above the fireplace in a New York apartment.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The sisal carpet in Bruce Shostak’s living room is a reminder that, in spite of the presence of fine antiques, this is a country house.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper established distinct seating areas in Donny Deutsch’s living room with the help of twin custom cowhide carpets in a brick patchwork.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The bold pattern and coloration of a handmade ikat rug lends spice to a living room by Judy King that is dominated by quieter natural materials.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The ribs of a Zavala sisal carpet extend the fringe of an upholstered bench and bring welcome texture to a living room with smooth white walls by Carrier and Company.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
Wall-to-wall sisal, like the gray-stained wood wall planking and white canvas slipcovers, suits the casual living room Bruce Bierman designed for a house on Fire Island.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms
The subtle stripe in the Antelope Ax pattern comes across as a plush and exotic version of wide-plank flooring in a blue living room by M Interiors.
Decorating with Carpets: Living Rooms