Living room rugs - add texture and color to your floors with these contemporary styles

The living room is by far the most important room in your home for finding just the right area rug. Southwestern and kathy ireland are very popular living room rugs that are normally on sale and with a large selection.

Most living rooms are decorated somewhere in between traditional  and modern. Themes range anywhere from a country style or southwestern to a more modern furnished room.

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• We recommend you buy traditional, oriental and persian area rugs at - Rugman - discounts and sales are always happening.
• For contemporary styles and accent rugs go to RugSale.com

	Modern Rugs- This style doesn't really mean that they are widely different or more upscale than other styles. They just have more of a modernized look a feel with colors that that go with today's furnishings and paint colors. Think of them as contemporary.
	Traditional Rugs are more oriental or persian in nature. Rug selection includes tabriz, kashan, shiraz, ghoochan, kashmar and hamadan
	Medium Rugs These rugs range from 4'5"x8'6" to 5'6"x8'6". Selection includes oriental, kashmar, tabriz, bakhitiara, couristan and contemporary area rugs with modern shapes and colors.
	Contemporary are rug sizes range from 3x5 to 3 1/2 by 5 1/2. They go as small as 2 by 3, including round rugs. Choices include veramin, antiquity, tribeca and legacy.

Contemporary styled area rugs are designed to be the bridge between modern and traditional. They range from soft feeling prairie rugs, braided, pile weave rugs with geometric shapes.  Oriental carpets or persian area rugs are a good choice for a living room when you have a more formal rug in a dining room.
 

If you need a strong, hard wearing, durable, natural fiber rug, then jute or sisal rugs are favored

This type of living room rug is ideal for high traffic areas where you are worried about wearing or scratching a hardwood floor in an entrance way or would like to protect an expensive carpet underneath. They may be a little rough for bare feet but are ideal for main hallways where people come in from the outdoors.

• We recommend you buy your traditional, oriental and persian area rugs for the living room at - Rugman.com - discounts and sales are always happening.
• For contemporary styles and more colorful rugs go to RugSale.com

Natural fiber rugs or sisal rugs come in a variety of shapes and colors.  Made from a strong, stable and versatile material that can be woven into boucles and rib weaves, flat weaves, and jacquard patterns and many dyed colors. It can be a little rough underfoot if you are using in a living room, but less so when combined with other fibers such as wool.

Sisal rugs are naturally sound-absorbing, anti-static, and extremely durable as well. This is because of the inherent qualities of the tough, hard-wearing fibers that also acts as a naturally insulating rug. It is also naturally insulating and difficult to ignite. Like most plant fibers, however, sisal absorbs moisture readily, therefore we recommend that these materials be used only indoors, in dry areas of your home or office.

Colors include gold, green, blue, yellow, grey, orange, rust color and more. Most have a border edge, which will vary by company and style.  

Generally found in rectangular shapes or as a rug runner. It is not very often you will see these in oval or round shapes. They have a great natural look that fits into most decors easily. 

If the rug in question is for placing over a hardwood or tile floor you should place a rug pad underneath. This does two things: as a safety precaution it will stop it from slipping and sliding, and it will also extend the life of the rug by adding extra padding, stopping the underside from wearing prematurely.

For other ideas for floor coverings go to our main page about contemporary area rugs, here for family room rugs or here for rugs for the bedroom.