Family room progress

As you may have read here, I painted our family room bright green a couple of weeks ago. You can kind of see a rectangle of scuffed hardwood in front of the fireplace in the picture below – that’s the traffic path around the ottoman.

The floor is being refinished this week. Although there was a bit of a delay yesterday, because our two dogs decided that Luigi, the nice little Italian man who was alone in the house refinishing the floor, was an evil intruder who had to be dealt with. The two entrances to the family room are blocked off so the dogs can’t get in. When Luigi tried to get out of the family room to get his supplies, the dogs went into evil guard dog mode and wouldn’t let him out. Eventually Luigi decided to bail out through a window and go home. He came back around 1:30 when he knew I’d be home for lunch. I mean, seriously, do these look like killer dogs?

Anyway, hubby finally agrees that we really should put an area rug in the family room to protect the floor. I’ve been looking for a red rug with pattern, and found these two. The one on the left is the Emmeline from Korhani, and the one on the right is Infinite Concept from Alexanian.

   

But when I saw this carpet (also from Alexanian), I loved it. It’s bright, bold, fun, and would really give some life to the room. It doesn’t look as orange in real life, and although it doesn’t have any bright green in it, the colours in the rug really work well with the paint colour.

The furniture in the room is pretty plain – two brown leather chairs, brown leather ottoman, and taupe microfibre sofa. Pillows on the sofa & chairs are are useless because the dogs keep knocking them on the floor. And I like the simple white horizontal blinds, so there won’t be any patterned window treatments. Which means the carpet is going to be the hit of pattern in the room.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the three rugs – which one would you go with and why?