Rug Placement Under Dining Room Table

Rugs are a soft piece of furnishing that carpet the area under and around the table grounding it and the dining room chairs too.

Rug placement under dining room table.

But choosing the perfect rug can be a little tricky. When selecting an area rug make sure that it extends under all the key pieces of furniture in the room. In the case above the rug placement goes nearly to the edge of the room. You ll want to center the rug under your dining table and then make sure it s big enough.

There should be plenty of room for dinner guests to slide their chairs in and out without getting hooked or hung up on the edge of your rug. By placing your dining table on top of a well proportioned eye catching and color coordinated rug you are effectively marking out the boundary lines of where you eat. It s a simple technique and requires no permanent dividing structures but it has a huge impact on the way an open plan room will look and feel. It s usually an investment so we want to do everything we can to choose the right one.

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 dining room eating spaces typically offer the least flexibility for rugs since the objective here is to have something that grounds the room and ties the table and chairs together. To find the best size for your set measure your table and add 4 feet to both its length and width to accommodate pulled out chairs. Dining room rugs should be large enough to cover the entire area under the table and beyond.