6×9 Area Rugs

Adding an area rug to your living room can tie the room together and bring it to life. You can use an area rug to define seating areas or to add a little color to an all too neutral space. As you are looking for a rug for your living room, consider the size, shape and style that will look the best in your space.

Picking the Size
Usually if you are adding an area rug to your living room it goes under the coffee table. If there is no coffee table, then it goes in front of the couch. If you are placing an area rug in this spot, make sure that it is large enough to include all four legs of the coffee table and make sure that it encompasses the couch. You want to keep some level of symmetry with your carpet placement, and it can go in front of the couch, under the entire couch, or maybe even under the front half of the couch. Then you can place additional seating around the carpet and coffee table. Standard area rugs come in 4′ X 6′ and 6′ X 9′.

If you have a really big living room, you can use more than one area rug to define conversational groupings in the room. You may have one grouping of chairs around the fireplace, so that is where one of you area rugs would go. Then you may have another conversational grouping with your couch and coffee table more towards the center of the room, and that is where another area rug would go. Make sure that the carpets relate to each other either in color or design to help the room feel cohesive.

Setting the Style
If you are decorating a room from scratch, then you can choose any carpet that you wish, but if you are adding an area rug into an existing room, you want to consider colors and patterns that are already in place. If you already have a lot of color going on in the room, you may want your carpet to be understated. You can either blend it with the floor, or choose an existing bold color in the room and use that in your carpet. If the room is rather drab, you may want to use this as an opportunity to add an interesting focal point to the space.

If you are adding the rug to a modern space look for geometric designs, for country consider a braided rug, animal prints work for more eclectic rooms try and for a formal room is always wonderfully accented with a Persian carpet.

Material
Rugs can be made of either natural or synthetic fibers. The most common natural fibers used are wool, cotton, jute and sisal, and the most common synthetic fibers are polypropylene and nylon.

Frequently where you are placing the rug determines the best materials for it. For example, if the area gets a lot of foot traffic, you may want to use a polypropylene rug because it is durable and stain resistant. However, in a sitting area, you may prefer wool or cotton for its lush softness.

Rugs are ideal for decorating small or large spaces within houses and even workplaces. Depending upon your general interior décor and theme of the house arrangement, you can select the rugs for rooms enhancing the look. The correct selection of rugs can make the surrounding look much better than before, whereas the disadvantages of picking the wrong one might lead to the complete destruction of the general décor of the room.

Rugs are available in a wide range of materials, fabrics, shapes, sizes and designs to suit your needs and requirements. The most important things among all that you must keep in mind while buying rugs is the size of the room that you will be placing it in. The size and style of the rug depends heavily upon the total area of the room. When you have the advantage of decorating a larger area, you have the liberty of playing will different sizes, types and materials. But if you are decorating a smaller room, then you should always select small rugs to not make the arrangement look too congested.

6×9 area rugs are ideal for almost all types of home décor. The size is not too big or too small and therefore can be safely used for any room. Once you are sure of the size, the next important element is the space that you will be arranging the rug in. Living and drawing rooms generally require more of an elegant and formal look and therefore with such rugs, you should not compromise on the quality, because they speak volume about your aesthetic sense. For these areas, you can go fir animal prints, even skin and fur if you have the budget. Or go for something intricately unique. There are various countries known for rug and carpet weaving, especially in South Asia. If you are extremely particular about your interior décor and if you want it to be perfect, then you should try and order one of those rare, hand woven pieces to make your general arrangement look even more elegant and regal. These rugs are a great investment and one can get benefit from them.

If you are arranging your bedroom or study areas, you can always go for something more casual and bright. 6×9 rugs are easily available in all types and designs depending upon your choice, you can even select them according to the theme and color combination of your room to complete the look. You can place them in the center of the room or near doorways so they become more prominent. If you are placing these 6×9 area rugs in kids’ bedrooms, make sure that do not have any excessive thread or beadwork that children can swallow, resulting in choking hazards.