Instead think about your seating areas and find several rugs that will anchor those.
Best rug placement for living room.
Think of a rug as an anchor for the room rather than a platform.
The best advice for arranging a rug on a patio or screened in porch is to consider the furnishings table chairs couches bed or futon and then position the rug accordingly.
In a living room for instance all of the furniture should be on top of the rug if this isn t possible it s okay to have the front legs of major upholstered pieces on the rug and the back legs off.
The living room rug placement should consider every furniture found in the room.
While it s best to fill as much of a larger room as possible as pictured above that can be cost prohibitive.
If all the furniture can t fit on the rug then try to have at least the front armrests of the chairs be on it.
You should try to keep the coffee and side tables always above the rug.
In the living room placing a rug gets a little trickier but it still all depends on the size of your space and your plans for laying out your furniture according to loloi you have three main.
For added interest float one small patterned rug atop a larger floor covering in sisal or seagrass.
Do extend rugs under furniture.
You want a little bit of leeway between the wall and your rug.