The carpet, despite many people's belief that it is a dust collector, still plays a key role in the interior and can help complete the look. With it, you can successfully zoning a room, add accents or paint the room in some color, visually enlarge or reduce the space. Striped carpet, in turn, will help to make the interior more interesting. How to use it correctly, we will understand in this article.
What should be the ideal rug size?
Several decades ago, there was a trend to cover the entire room with carpet, including areas under the legs of furniture. Today, this technique is also used, but quite rarely: in cases where it is necessary to create an image of the unity of the interior or make a certain color an accent in the room. However, when using a striped carpet in the interior of a room, this technique may seem too much.artsy.
Modern designers are much more likely to use small carpets when arranging a room, covering only those parts of the room where furniture is not placed, thereby creating coziness and completeness of the interior. For example, a small soft striped carpet between an armchair and a coffee table. Such carpets can be used when zoning a room, for example, to separate a recreation area from a work area.
Color and style are key
The striped carpet in the room should contrast with the chosen main color in the interior, become an interesting bright detail. For example, with light shades of the walls, the carpet should be chosen bright or dark, with dark ones - light. In this way, the carpet helps to balance the color scheme in the interior and creates a kind of balance. And in order for the carpet to fit perfectly into the overall interior of the room, its colors should be related to the color of the floor, that is, warm colors with a light floor or cold with a dark one.
When choosing a striped rug for the nursery, you need to pay attention to the taste preferences of your child and choose the colors that he likes. In this case, make a start in choosing a color for the future interior from the color scheme of the carpet. If you decide that the carpet will consist of several colors, try to choose the color of the walls and floor for them.
When choosing the color of the future carpet in the room, you must also pay attention to the style of the interior and the details that will echo it. Saturatedthe colors of this decorative element will perfectly match other objects of the same or very similar color: sofa cushions, vases, bedspreads or, for example, furniture fronts. Carpets are quite widely used in the interior when decorating a room in Asian and traditional styles. Also, this decor element is used in modern and high-tech styles. In the last two, the carpets are quite small and plain.
Rules for integrating a contrasting carpet into the interior
In order to correctly beat the contrasting striped carpet in the interior, you must follow a few rules. Trying to emphasize the texture and color of the furniture, try to pick up a bright rich carpet. It will favorably highlight plain elements of decor. At the same time, its color should not match the furniture, because in this way the effect of the accent will disappear and the room will visually decrease. If your room is very bright, add brightness with a colorful carpet, which will influence the mood of the occupants of the room. Striped carpets do a great job with the latter function, transforming a cold interior into a bright one with the help of rich colors.
