Here are two shots of our new dining room rug. It makes the room a little more formal–although it already had the formal thing going on. We use our dining room nearly every night for dinner–which may seem weird.
Here’s a close-up:
And, here’s a longer shot–our dining room isn’t that big so it is hard to take a picture of the whole room. The thing in the lower right-hand corner is an old cobbler tool…I don’t know the “real” name but cobblers would put the leather shoe on this form and cobble away. We use it as a door-stop.
Thanks! Wow, that’s gorgeous! In the picture, it looks like a perfect match to the wall color. Your dining room looks pretty big to me.
The upper part of the wall is a deep yellow called pollen grains which just cracks me up because pollen is never that lovely. The red on the lower part works really well with the red in the rug.
The room isn’t too big–I guess it is regular sized but at our other house we converted the large living room into a dining room so we still feel like this new room is small. The rug is approximately 9X12 and it fits in there with just enough room to spare along the edges.
Yeah, the pollen grains are about ready to kill me these days, but it sounds very pretty.
We have about the same amount of room around the edge of our dining room rug as well, but it’s 7×9 I think. We don’t use that room as much as we should.
Did you have a rug there before? From the picture it looks like a very put-together room now.
We’ve never had a rug in the dining room because the cats in our lives would have vomited or pooped on the rug before we got the furniture back in the room. Seriously, I would have been lugging a chair back in and would have had to step over a pile of poop. I loved my kitties but they were nasty beasts. So, now that we don’t have pets, we have rugs–at least this one and the runner in the foyer.
The only other rugs are some small throw ones at the sink and back doors. We have part of the upstairs in wall-to-wall but the cat who lived here was banned from ever stepping foot in that area. The few times he did go in there weren’t good.