Art Deco is not a style for the faint of heart. The bold colors, shapes, and abstract lines certainly draw the eye.
There are many different pieces of decor that you can add to your home to create a bold style such as this. Rugs are one of them.
But how can you pull off layering your floor with such a bold item without going overboard? This article will reveal how:
1. Liven Up a Calm Room
Your home may follow a more subtle style than art deco but you can still use an art deco rug to your advantage.
A room that is mostly monotone neutrals needs a little something to spruce up the place. This is the perfect space for an art deco rug.
It doesn’t have to be too bold. Perhaps a rug with a little less color but an in-your-face pattern will do the trick.
Or, you can always be courageous and let the rug take the show. If you choose to use a rug that is unabashedly vibrant and colorful, make sure you sprinkle in a few accents to the room that bring out some of those vibrant colors.
2. Go Elegant and Timeless
You can be bold but still sleek and sophisticated. A cream-colored plush rug with black or navy geometrical borders would do well in a more classy art deco environment.
Rooms with metallic furnishings and velvet fabrics need a more tamed rug to keep those glamorous pieces in the limelight.
Another art deco rug that would do well in a room such as this is one with monochromatic colors. Various tones of silver and grey won’t be too colorful but still add visual interest.
You can see some great examples of this here.
3. Mix and Match
Just because a rug fits into the art deco style doesn’t mean it can’t fit with another type of interior.
For example, trapezoids and triangle patterns do well in a boho-inspired room. Cubist patterned rugs fit right in with a more modern decor.
Sometimes it helps to think outside the box and mix and match your styles until you find what works. Not only will you feel more comfortable in your own home but you will have a style unique to you.
Who knows? Maybe you’ll start the next big interior design trend.
4. Style Around the Rug
If you found a rug that you love and you just can’t live without but it doesn’t match your current decor, there’s only one thing to do; redecorate.
Since art deco rugs aren’t the easiest to style with, why not just style around them?
You can always start with the rug and then envision what the room should look like to compliment the rug.
Then you can begin to find the pieces that match the rug instead of trying to match the rug to a room already full of pieces.
5. Frame a Bed
It might be easier to place such a bold rug under your bed. This way the bulk of the rug is covered by the bed and tamed a little.
This works in your favor another way as well. Your bed will become the attraction of the room.
This rug will not just be covered by the bed, but it will frame the bed like a piece of artwork.
6. Highlight Another Bold Piece
If being bold is your thing, chances are, you have another piece of furniture in your home that you could potentially be struggling to make work in your home.
An art deco rug can help tie that piece in like a win-win scenario.
For example, perhaps you bought a vintage green velvet wingback that sticks out like a sore thumb in your living room. You love this chair but it just doesn’t seem to fit.
An art deco rug with this same green in its pattern could be just what you need to make your amazing velvet chair look like it belongs.
Conclusion
Granted, opting to style your home with a more traditional rug is a safer, easier way to go, but a bright, bold art deco rug is much more fun!
It will take a bit more creativity and effort to figure out how to make this rug work in your home but when you pull it off, it creates such a visually pleasing room that you can’t help but be impressed by.
The question is: are you brave enough?