The following are useful ideas for placing a rectangular rug under a sectional sofa in a room of your home.
Area rug for l shaped sofa.
With this size rug placed beneath your sectional sofa all sofa legs should be off the rug.
When selecting an area rug make sure that it extends under all the key pieces of furniture in the room.
In an oddly shaped room.
We are placing a rug in our master suite and the room is rectangular in shape 13 2 x 17 7 with a king size bed.
Best area rugs for the kitchen.
Depending on the size of your rug you may not have the option of it extending beneath your sectional pieces and you may want to center it beneath your coffee table instead.
Helpful tips for how to place a rug under a sectional sofa.
Do extend rugs under furniture.
However the round or oval shaped rug can also give an appealing affects if placed under the furniture.
The entire room will seem smaller and disconnected.
5 by 8 feet or larger.
The runner rugs can do well here if positioned at both sides of the bed.
Too small and the rug floats like a shrunken island with the unmoored sofa and untethered chairs bobbing awkwardly somewhere near it.
This rug creates a sense of intimacy and creates a conversational space in the room above.
The bed is on the shorter wall because of doors and windows in the room.
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A 9 by 12 foot or larger rug can go underneath the front legs of a sofa.
Centering the rug in the l of your sectional sofa one rule of thumb when placing an area rug is to have an even amount of space around it.
But get a huge area rug that dwarfs the seating area and spills over into the open dining space or edges the entry and you lose any definition in the room.
Based on the shape of the room we would place the rug to go with the shape of the room 9x 12 rug but this only gives 13 of rug on either side of the bed.
As they typically don t have a natural centre point to work with it s best to avoid placing any furniture on them at all.
Lower furniture such as a this sectional sofa above look fine with a rug tucked 8 12 under the edge of the sofa but for the beautiful side chairs the rug should sit completely underneath all four legs.
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.