New Rug

Buying rugs has always been a challenge for us.  At the old house, we had to get rugs once we put in the laminate floors.  We didn’t want to spend a lot so we got two cheapies from Target.  I really liked one of them… at least for the price.  When we moved in the new house, I knew the rug for the living room would be a challenge.  Ryan and I didn’t really know what style we wanted.  I knew what I DIDN’T want which was something really classic, traditional oriental.  I also didn’t want anything too contemporary. 

We just let the room go without a rug.  We slowly filled up the room with furniture (couches, chair, tables) that ultimately helped us set our color palette. I think you are supposed to go the other way around but couches and coffee tables were just more important.

For a while I’ve been eyeing this rug in the Pottery Barn catalog.  Problem is we were on a bit of a Pottery Barn strike.  I don’t think I ever told the full story about our Kitchen Table and Chairs.  It was a little bit of a fiasco.  Well, really, it was just the two end chairs.  We ordered ones with arms.  They took FOREVER to come in… meaning supposed to be 6 weeks (before Thanksgiving) and took like 3 or 4 months.  Then we finally get them, and yeah, they don’t fit under the table.  The arms were too high.  We investigated and none of Pottery Barn’s arm chairs would have fit under the table.  Nice.  So we ended up getting some very similar ones at Bassett.  At the end of the day, it all worked out, but Ryan was NOT happy with Pottery Barn and I was forbidden from shopping there (okay, that’s a little bit of an exaggeration).

I finally convinced him to go back and look at the rug.  I think we both realized it was the right “style” and the catalog made it seem to be the right colors.   It has been a year since the chair fiasco started so I guess Ryan was softening up!  :)

In the store, it looked really washed out and we definitely needed a rug that would “pop”.  So they sent us home with a swatch and to our surprise it looked amazing in our house.  Yay!  The sales girl that helped us told us the Friends and Family sale (20% off) was coming up but only on in store items.  We needed a special order 9x12 rug.  So, I knew just what to do… I went back to Pottery Barn and found the manager that worked with us on the chairs.  She remember us and gave us the 20% off.

A week after we ordered, this is what our living room looks like!  I think Pottery Barn has redeemed itself!