Feb 22 2010

Getting the Most Impact from a Pink Area Rug

If you are buying a pink area rug for your home, you want to choose the one which will provide the best improvement in how your room looks. That generally means that your rug will need to make some kind of impression on those who visit, but only in a good way. We are looking for a positive and not negative impact here! You can do that by choosing the right pink rug to enhance your decoration. In that way, you have an attractive addition and not an unwelcome eyesore.

1. The Right Color Pink

Pink comes in all kinds of different shades from a bright crimson to the palest pastel color. You will also find number of pinks which belong towards the yellow end of the spectrum such as peach pink and salmon. Hot pinks go well with the cool shades of black, gray and white, pastel pinks with cream, white and other pastels and the peachy or salmon pinks with beiges, creams and brown shades. Choose pink area rugs according to the other items in the room (or the other items you have planned for it).

2. The Right Size of Rug

A tiny little rug is never going to have an impact in a huge room so make sure that your rug is big enough to be noticed. Keep the size of your rug so that there is margin of about a foot around the edges of whatever floor area you want to place your rug into (not the whole room just the area where your rug will go).

3. The Right Style of Rug

You can get get very contemporary pink rugs and more traditional types and you need to choose a style that works well with your interior. Contemporary rugs tend to have big designs and just a few colors whereas a traditional rug has more colors and a regular pattern in the design.