Round Area Rugs

How a Round Rug Can Highlight Your Room Decor

A round area rug can highlight your room’s decor by fitting into the room’s overarching style, reinforcing the color scheme, and setting the tone. When you focus on creating a cohesive room, you’ll naturally choose a rug that accents your other decor and creates a beautifully designed space. Fortunately, round rugs are available in many colors like black, green, blue, red, pink, gold, yellow, white, and others, so you don’t have to worry about settling for any old rug.

Where Do Round Rugs Look Best?

Round rugs look best in spaces where their shape is allowed to shine. Round rugs tend to give off a softer tone than rectangular rugs due to their lack of sharp, rigid corners, so showing off the shape really impacts the room’s tone and defines the space. Oftentimes, round rugs are used in living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and entryways. Check out these guidelines to help you decide on your round rug’s placement. 

Living Room: A large round area rug can be used in the middle of your main seating area and overlap with the front portion of the seats, or it can even have the furniture fully grounded on the rug. However, another common use of round rugs in the living room is to use it in a smaller sitting area for reading or morning coffee. 

Dining Room: When you add a round rug to your dining room, it’s best to have a round table on top of it. That will help you create a balanced look and be thematically consistent. 

Bedroom: A round rug can be centered beneath the bed, be placed next to it, or be used similarly to the living room and create a small sitting area. In boho bedrooms, you even have the option to layer round rugs with other rugs to create an eclectic, spunky mood.

Kitchen: Round rugs look best in the kitchen when they’re centered in the middle of the room or workspace. However, be sure the rug doesn’t press right up against the cabinets or wall--if that happens, the room will feel overstuffed. 

Bathroom: Similar to kitchens, you can use a round rug centered in the middle of the room, but if you have a larger bathroom, you can also use a smaller rug to establish a space near your shower or tub. 

Entryway: In grand foyers, you can center a round rug in the middle of the room. Be sure to line it up with a lighting fixture, a table, or some other decor so that the rug doesn’t feel like it’s floating in the middle of nowhere. 

Outdoors: Round area rugs are very common for outdoor dining or sitting areas. For layout ideas, look back at similar indoor spaces. 

Should You Put A Round Rug Under A Round Table?

Round rugs look fantastic beneath round tables! In the entryway, you can choose a round rug that’s slightly bigger than the table itself, so you’ll likely look at sizes like 3 foot and 4 foot rugs. When it comes to setting a rug under a dining room table, make sure you have about two feet of extra rug on each side so there’s plenty of room for the chairs. 8 foot rugs are a great option beneath round tables in the dining room, but be sure to look at your specific measurements to see what size rug is best.

Frequently Asked Questions about Round Rugs

Why use a round rug?

Round rugs can make a room look more spacious by causing the eye to follow in fluid movement.

How big should a round rug be for living rooms?

A 6-foot round rug can help define the space in a living room.

Can you put a rectangular table on a round rug?

Yes, make sure the rug is larger than the dining table so there is room for the chairs to be pulled back without slipping off the rug.

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