Family Room Area Rug

Area rugs.

For me, those are in the same category as paint and couches.

I have trouble picking them, hate them when I get them home, and usually end up doing whatever it is at least twice and keeping one that is just "ok".

If we're talking about paint the agony mounts, and it wouldn't be out of the question for me to paint a room in the morning and by dinner it's another color that's better - but still not right.

I have such trouble picking colors it's probably the reason I stick to earthy hues.

Such is the current situation.

After a three year search to replace a 15 year old couch, I bought a new one for our family room, mostly because I was just sick of looking.

I can now describe every couch on every showroom floor in the state of Minnesota.

I saw plenty of couches I liked, but there are issues of design, vs people actually plopping down on a couch to watch a movie, that made most of the fashionable couches just not work for the room layout or the way we use the room.

So I caved in to the demands of the masses:

Reclining please.....

The firm opinion that they hate leather.......

And the questioning of why everything in our house is brown or beige or some shade of either.

So needless to say when the couch arrived I missed the mark on color as well as style.

It's just gray, but a style that is oh so very contemporary for my not contemporary house or taste.

I envy the ladies who can pull a room together as simple as buttering bread.

How after a three year search could I mess up in the end?

I could live with the style if the color was more homey.  Or I could live with the color if the style was more old world.

Whatever, it looks like I'm going to have to live with it just how it is, so what to do?

Becky from Beyond The Picket Fence had the answer when she made a casual comment to me on how to live with the couch I got wrong and "help" it.

Such a simple tip, something everyone else probably already knew........

"Accessorize.  Rug.  Pillows".

I'm working with some existing elements that are not going to be eliminated.

There is some log siding in part of the family room.

With lots of windows, in the winter when it's cold out, the wood really warms the room up.  But it does have an orange cast to it.

So I made a decision that to tie that part of the room in, I would order a rug.

An orange rug.

The orange tones are the elephant in the room, and no amount of changing to a gray couch and painting a coffee table to look like zinc is going to hide those tones, so I decided to leave my comfort zone and roll with it.

But orange????   That is a giant leap for a greigy beigey colorless sort of gal.

I took to the internet to search for rugs and after I narrowed it down from pattern, price, size and color, I ordered the two contenders.

I even asked input from the people who pressured me into the couch I don't like.

I ended up liking both rugs.  The orange isn't fluorescent like it looks in the photos, both rugs have a muted shade more of a vintage orange that has been around for a while, burnt orangeish.

So which one did I keep.......

A.

or..... B.

To you, what one looks more casual in a down to earth style?

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