Staging Vacants: RUGS! RUGS! RUGS!

Great inventory - for sure some savvy homeowner or Realtor should jump at the chance to hire Design to Market LLC. I always like the touch a good big area rug lends to a room -  intimacy and softness and a sense of purpose to the arrangement - let alone a sorely needed shot of color.

Kathleen Lordbock from MN 

Jo - Great point and great post!!!  If you have any before picture, include those and post them in the Staging Before & After Group as I'd love to feature it there.

Kathy 

Jo:  I also like using rugs, but don't use them that often.  For older homes with smaller rooms, even a 6x9 can look big.  I wonder about people walking into a "room", seeing "a rug", and deciding that their rug at home is the same size (when it could be acres bigger) and that the house is too small.  It is just incredible what assumptions are leapt to by buyers. 

Just my two cents, from DC!

   Jaynee Jo - yes, Jaynee Jo

I think this is a great post. Rugs also can anchor down the room. But personally I don't like to put rugs in small space because it eats up space visually.

Cheers,

Cindy 

Hi Jo,

Rugs really do make a difference! Great pictures, the rooms look awesome!

Hi Jo,

I'm a fan of rugs too. Where do you get yours? I've had fairly good luck at Marshalls but I could use some more large (9x12s and larger).

Thanks for the ideas!

Jo ~

You have put together some beautiful rooms and the rug is what makes it complete. Great job.

I don't use area rugs in smaller spaces that may make the rooms look choppy. These rooms are large and the rugs definitely define the space, they look awesome.

I love the first picture the most....oooo, I would love to live there.

Phyllis Pafumi

Great pictures. The rugs work great. I may have to rethink my own reasons for not using them to often! I tend to shy away from using rugs for the same reasons already listed.  They can make a room look smaller or be a distraction because of the design.  In the right setting the rugs can make or break a space.  Your rugs definitely made the space!

Jo,

I am a firm believer in the 'value' of adding area rugs to vacants in order to define a space, or add warmth, color and texture to a room.  You can even bypass window treatments if area rugs are used correctly.

Your pictures prove that you certainly know how to use rugs to the room's advantage! 

VAL

Hi; just came across your post and great pictures featuring the rugs.  Gotta agree; they look wonderful!!!