Gray Area Rug For Living Room

Gray Area Rug For Living Room

7 Grey Carpet Ideas for Your Living Room

Calm and sophisticated, grey carpet can look gorgeous in a living space, but how best to style it? Check out these ideas

Grey carpet can be a smart choice in a living room, but it can also throw up a series of design dilemmas: which wall colour should you pair it with? Which sofa shades work best? Should you go for light or dark? If you're unsure, take a look at these grey room schemes for inspiration.

Pick a shade and run with it
This living room feels light, bright and elegant, thanks to the use of very similar shades of pale grey across all the surfaces, from the walls to the carpet and even the upholstered furniture and built-in shelving.

A smart way to make a small space feel bigger, this design trick is often used with a very dark shade highlighted by light accents, but works equally well when reversed like this.

To create the same look in your own home, choose one shade for all the main elements in your room, be it light or dark grey, but ensure you break it up through the use of accessories, as demonstrated here by the black-framed coffee table and wood-framed mirror.

Go to the dark side
In a busy space used by several people, such as a living room, deep grey might be a safer choice for those worried about spills and marks.

A dark carpet doesn't need to mean a dark space, though. This is a nice example of how a bright and fresh living room with white walls and woodwork can be complemented by charcoal flooring.

In this context, the dark grey anchors the room scheme, but doesn't dominate. This is thanks to a thick cream and black rug in the centre of the room that links the two tones, along with a mid-grey sofa that helps to bridge the gap.

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Choose a fine stripe
If you look closely at the grey carpet in this sunny living space, it has a subtle stripe to it that adds texture and visual interest to the floor.

The shade chosen here is a light grey that almost tips over into beige, which helps to warm up the room and create that cosy feel.

A good choice for high-traffic areas, a lightly patterned grey carpet will also be more forgiving than a flat colour when it comes to spills and marks.

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Tie an open-plan scheme together
By covering the floor of the living and dining areas in the same light grey carpet, the owners of this home have tied the two spaces together. The wash of pale flooring ensures the different zones feel connected and considered.

Placing a patterned rug in front of the sofa is a clever way to break up the largest area of floor space, and this also avoids the effect of having a 'sea' of carpet on which the small coffee table could have looked lost.

Add texture
A textured wool carpet is the perfect foil for the other fabrics in this living room, proving that an all-grey scheme can still have lots of interest if the finishes and materials are carefully considered.

While the main elements in the room are all drawn from the same tonal range of mid-grey, the homeowners have cleverly chosen a mix of textures to break up the space. The linen sofa, grey wood coffee table and ridged wool carpet all combine effortlessly to create a room packed with subtle detail.

Layer up
This living room is pretty much the definition of the word 'cosy'. With its deep, squishy sofa and layers of plush textiles, it invites relaxation. The carpet is an integral part of this scheme, providing a soft layer of wall-to-wall warmth underfoot for padding between the sofa and table.

The colour of the carpet is clever, too. It has a very subtle grey and cream stripe, which references both the grey of the sofa and the cream walls and accessories. It's a neat way to pull together both of these key elements.

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Cool down a bright scheme
The yellow patterned wallpaper is undoubtedly the star of the show in this living room, but the grey carpet plays a no-less-important supporting role. By providing a wash of cool colour, the carpet tones down the bold wallpaper and provides a neutral base to prevent the room from feeling too theatrical.

If you want to create a splash with a bold wallpaper like this, a grey carpet could be the perfect foil. Just be sure to chose a plain version with no pattern or texture that could compete with the paper.

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