Transitional Rugs:
Bridging Styles

Transitional rugs are area rugs that combine the elements of traditional area rugs with more modern elements. This is a new twist on an old rug, so to speak, and transitional area rugs are gaining in popularity because they can be used to create an exciting new look.

Comfort, Reflecting Tastes and Interests

Some homeowners have decorated their homes or apartments in specific period styles, but more often, these homeowners incorporate a variety of decorating styles in their homes, creating more of an eclectic, personal look.

Real, everyday working people don’t typically have a decorator, and they don’t necessarily want their home to look like something from the pages of an interior designer’s magazine. They want a comfortable home that reflects their tastes and interests–a home or apartment that is lived in and livable.

Bridging the Gap

Transitional rugs help bridge the gap between styles of furniture and accessories, or a home’s architectural style and its furnishings, or any other two elements that don’t quite seem to be a “matching” combination. For instance, if you have a traditional Victorian style home, but you prefer to decorate with contemporary furnishings, the two do not seem to fit, at first.

If you select a traditional area rug – say a classic Oriental – for the living room, it will look like the rug fits the house and the room. However, the contemporary lines and colors of the furniture will likely look out of place.

Similarly, if you anchor the room with an edgy, modern, contemporary area rug that may very well go great with the furniture pieces, the entire arrangement may look like it was plopped down right in the middle of the wrong room.

Transitional area rugs contain elements of both and help you decorate to enhance your home and its furnishings and accessories.

Traditional Rugs and Contemporary Rugs Compared

Consider, for example, some of the differences between traditional and contemporary area rugs. Traditional area rugs tend to have themes of flowers or botanicals, medallions or crests, muted colors, or symmetrical patterns and borders. Contemporary rugs more typically contain bold colors, geometric shapes and asymmetrical designs.

A transitional area rug, on the other hand, will combine elements from both.

In the above example, a natural transitional area rug choice might be a traditional floral motif in a bright edgy color that enhances the furnishings. Alternatively, it might be a modern design, like wide stripes of color in muted, traditional colors, which includes a wide border reminiscent of a traditional rug design.

The Perfect Decorating Solution

Transitional area rugs are the perfect decorating solution for anyone who doesn’t want to be tied in to one decorating theme or style. They’re great for people with an eclectic mix of furnishings and accessories, such as items collected during their travels, newlyweds combining homes and individual tastes. Then again, it might be anyone who simply refuses to be put into a box.

Since today’s decorating style is about putting your unique touch on your home, its furnishings and accessories, transitional rugs are a great solution. They help you incorporate all the things you love, and blend your tastes seamlessly with one another. They are a great way to help you create a decorating style all your own.

If you want to leap right in and do some pre-shopping for transitional area rugs, I'm sure you'll find the rug that suits your choice in design, material, color, type of weave, and size at one of the recommended sources below.

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