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10 living rooms featuring exquisite designer rugs
Damien Kook

10 living rooms featuring exquisite designer rugs

10 Mar 2023  •  Specification  •  By Surabhi Patil

Often considered the heart of the home, the living room is where one spends most of their time relaxing after a long day, entertaining guests and spending quality time with family and friends. Additionally, it serves as a space where one can express their style and showcase their taste in design.  

 

One of the best ways to elevate living room interiors is by adding a designer rug. A well-chosen rug can bring texture, colour, and tactility to space and tie together diverse design elements while providing comfort and warmth.

 

From modern and minimalist to bohemian and eclectic, the following list comprises a selection of ten living rooms featuring exquisite rugs that add a touch of elegance and act as the perfect finishing touch to any space. 

 

1. Modern Cave
photo_credit Amit Geron
Amit Geron

The rooms making up this Old Jaffa apartment came together over hundreds of years – each with its own character and ground level. Refurbishing presented an opportunity to unite the rooms into one whole and in particul...

SILAÏ
GAN
SILAÏ is the new collection from Belgian designer Charlotte Lancelot for GAN, GANDIABLASCO’s indoor brand. SILAI means “stitch” in the Indian language and represents a reinterpretation of petit point embroidery. ...

 

2. Villa Couel
photo_credit RM\Architecture
RM\Architecture

Villa Couel is a restyling intervention that has made it possible to transform the interior spaces of a two-family villa built in the 70s by architects Michele Busiri Vici and Jacques Couelle - authors of the

BLISS
cc-tapis
Inspiration for this project came from a sample that Mae Engelgeer created, shaping round curves and trying to create a 3D effect. After a period of using straight graphic lines, and feeling almost captured by it, she...
 
3. Art Pop House
photo_credit Gus MacDonald
Gus MacDonald

Along the winding backstreets and neighbouring beach trails of the Mornington Peninsula, is a hidden gem of colour and texture. A beach house turned modern full-time residence, Denis and Jura’s&nb...

Crowded Room by Stephen Ormandy
Designer Rugs
Olsen + Ormandy are Louise Olsen + Stephen Ormandy, the owners and artistic force behind Dinosaur Designs.
 
4. Arch Deco
photo_credit Tatjana Plitt
Tatjana Plitt

What was the brief? We used tone-on-tone colour and space layering to reinvigorate this grand double storey heritage house in Balwyn. We amplified the great features of the original hous...

Ruby Room
Jenny Jones Rugs
Childhood memories of 1950’s film sirens, delicate lace and silk, glass beads glittering in the night enticing you into a secret parlour and dreams of what mysteries lie beyond the beads. These thoughts were Jen...
 
5. True Home
photo_credit Yevhenii Avramenko
Yevhenii Avramenko

“No fake and more space for happiness”, – these were the wishes of a young couple with 3 children, addressed to our team. So we made it – a real house for a real family!   ...

Stop Me If You Can (Zupyny Mene)
OLK Manufactory
Stop me if you can is a continuation of the unique collection of traditional vertical kilims with implanted symbols of modern pop culture into ancient folk patterns.

 

6. Modernist Milan
photo_credit Darko Barbirovic
Darko Barbirovic

Comfortable and bright 3,30 cm high ceiling flat, at the 2nd floor of a mid-century elegant building, located in one of the most authentic residential neighborhood of Milan.

Lines L1
Mohebban S.r.l.
Product Name:-Lines L1 Manufacturer:- Mohebban S.r.l.  Product Type:-  Rug  Fleece composition: Viscose Thickness:-0.7 cm Technique:-Hand woven Standard s...

 

7. Family Home Makeover
photo_credit Damien Kook
Damien Kook

20+ years ago our clients built their family home and they knew it was time to update. We are delighted that they called us for design expertise.

Pyrenees Teal
The Rug Establishment
Create an opulent tone for your space with our luxurious and lustrous Pyrenees rug. Hand knotted from wool and silk, the Pyrenees rug features a gorgeous abstract design against a soft grey background.Pyre...

 

8. 1930 Home in Douglaston
photo_credit Gieves Anderson
Gieves Anderson

Frederick Tang Architecture Updates a Landmarked 1930 Home in Douglaston, Queens Frederick Tang Architecture (FTA) has completed the multi-phased renovation of a landmarked 1930 Colonial-style...

Rope Rug
Hem
Deeply textural, extremely functional, pleasantly tactile—the Rope Rug series is an innovative take on a familiar typology. Designer Pauline Deltour was inspired to reimagine the endlessly practical traditional...

 

9. Los Feliz
photo_credit Art Gray
Art Gray

Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design was brought in to design the interiors of a beautiful Spanish colonial in Los Angeles by architect and homeowner Chet Callahan and his husband Jacinto. They had purchased the 2600 sqft...

AIR
Paola Lenti Srl
The rug, matter and colourThe rug, as a form of identifying personalized spaces, has been present throughout the ages. It is used to delineate volume, positive space, or even personal territory...

 

10. South Bay Residence
photo_credit Bethany Nauert
Bethany Nauert

The approximate 4000 sf home is situated in a gated community near Palos Verdes in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. This gated community is made up of ranches and ranch style architecture from the midcentury (i.e. 5...

Palermo rug in “Bone”
Armadillo
Armadillo’s Palermo rug evokes the undone sophistication of vintage fabric and the way it develops a soulful patina over time. Linen, with its beautiful sheen, is gently dyed and spun before being hand-knotted i...