Carpeted living room decorating ideas
50 Living Room Carpet Ideas
Through These Eyes
Carpet in the living room may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's certainly not an automatic design no-no either. Rather than dismissing it entirely, sometimes, you just need to embrace it.
Aside from being a soft to place to stand, living room carpet can make a room feel cozier and more colorful. Have carpet in your own living room? Here's 50 ways to make it work.
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Rikki Snyder
We all know that one rug can look great on top of carpet, but so does two. Layering multiple rugs on top of carpet creates a multifaceted look full of texture that will take your living room up a notch.
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Louis Duncan-He
For a seamless living room carpet look, pick carpet that is full of colors and vibrant tones and repeat those colors elsewhere in your space, like in accessories, throw pillows, or furniture.
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Cormar Carpets
Dealing with a small space? Pair lightly-colored carpet with similarly colored walls and glass accents for a living room that will feel brighter and more open than it really is.
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Margaret Wright
Need extra seating? Place floor pillows on your living room carpet. Not only do these provide a convenient spot to sit and chat, but they also act as an extra accessory to jazz up your carpet.
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Louis Duncan-He
Just as you can create a cohesive look with similar coloring in the carpet and the furniture and accessories that surround it, so can you create a cohesive look by mimicking the look of the carpet in other spaces as well—like the kitchen cabinets. This works well with open-concept areas.
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Cormar Carpets
Plum accents are the ideal companion to dark gray carpet in your living room. Consider adding a few touches of plum through throw pillows, blankets or vases.
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Louis Duncan-He
Living room carpet is an easy way to tie in fun patterns and texture. Repeat those patterns and texture (or ones similar to it) elsewhere in your space, like in wall art or throws.
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Carpetright UK
A simple cream-colored carpet is the perfect base layer for a boho rug and some cozy floor couches. Finish the look with a dramatic, show-stopping houseplant and some complementary wall art.
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Cormar Carpets
Adding carpet and unsure what color it should be? If your walls are white or off-white, try installing carpet in a similar shade. It can give your living room a marvelously minimalist feeling.
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Design: Kate + Co Design, Photos by Arnal Photography
Bringing texture into your living room doesn't have to mean covering it in wicker or velvet—it can also mean embracing it small ways, like choosing a more prominent weave or tuft in your carpet.
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Cormar Carpets
No matter how you style your living room and its carpet, don't forget some kind of contrasting color, even if you're going with a monochrome look. A dash of color in something as small as a picture frame or decorative bowl can help break up the space and keep it from looking too drab.
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KTII Design Group
Think of your living room carpet like a blank canvas and your furniture like the paint it sits upon it. And though your canvas shouldn't be covered in stuff before paint is added, a little pattern never hurt anyone. Try out a carpet with a small pattern and see for yourself.
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Cormar Carpets
An additional stylish look for your carpeted living room is tying in furniture that's slightly darker than your carpet and pairing it with a rich accent color. The room will feel coordinated, but not too matchy-matchy.
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KTII Design Group
Sometimes, a neutral carpet is the best one in your living room, especially if your decor style is more maximalist. Keeping things simple will help keep things from becoming chaotic.
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Cormar Carpets
For a living room with a timeless feeling, pair your lightly-colored carpet with off-white walls and black accents. Eye-catching black is further highlighted by the cream tones of the space, showing why contrast can be your home decor's best friend.
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Interior Impressions
For a stellar color combo, go for gold and gray. Gray carpet gets a reputation for being boring, but it's the perfect blank slate when it comes to pops of bold and classy gold.
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Cormar Carpets
Break of the monotony of a sea of carpet by placing floor accents, like baskets and bins, on top of it. Not only will they provide some helpful storage, but they'll provide visual interest too.
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Interior Impressions
For a room that feels breezy, bright and everything in-between, use a cream or off-white carpet paired with white furniture and walls. Keep things from feeling too clinical by tying in one or two small and subtle pops of color.
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ALine Studio
For a living room you'll want to be in 24/7, break out the highest-of-the-high-pile-carpet. Extra-tall tufts create a soft and welcoming feel, and your floor might just be as comfy as your couch.
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Rikki Snyder
Who says that rugs have to have all the cool patterns? Take a page from rugs' book and use carpet that's full of designs and color, like this Persian-rug-style carpet.
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R Johnston Interiors
Create a unique space that will set your living room apart with some geometrically textured carpet. Textured triangles, circles, and squares can give your floor a personality all of its own.
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Rikki Snyder
As you're starting to see, the coloring of your carpet is a great jumping off point for the coloring of the rest of your living room. One way to incorporate your carpet color is by using it as the background or base tone in wallpaper or wall art.
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R Johnston Interiors
Living room carpet in earthy and woody tones can give your space an old-world vibe, and it will pair perfectly with wooden accents, like cabinetry or ceiling beams.
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Rikki Snyder
For a fun, down-to-earth pattern, use dots in your carpet. They'll provide a touch of personality to an item that so many simply ignore.
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Through These Eyes
Give your living room a little extra style (and a little extra coziness) by placing a plush rug on top of your carpet.
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Rikki Snyder
A simpler, toned-down carpet means there's room for dramatically patterned ottomans or chairs. Instead of bemoaning your carpet's boring sensibilities, embrace what it allows you to do.
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Glenn Gissler Design
A neutral colored, low-pile carpet with a subtle pattern paired with elegant furniture and gilded accents creates a regal look that's sure to stand out.
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Rikki Snyder
A carpet covered in long lines is the perfect addition to a lusciously linear space. When paired with tall windows, long sofas and geometric coffee table, a linear-patterned carpet ties the whole look together.
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Invictus Carpet
You don't have to cover up your carpet—either with furniture or rugs. A simple look can look just as good as more maximalist one. For the best effect, make sure all your furniture and decor coordinates well with the carpet, since there won't be much of it.
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Invictus Carpet
Another winning color combo is beige and navy.
Beige carpet is easy to find (and affordable!) and pairs wonderfully with a touch of navy, for a subtle nautical look.
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Rikki Snyder
Another way to add a unique pop of style is by laying an animal skin rug on top of your carpet. This looks even better when a coffee table or another central piece of furniture sits upon it.
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Clayton Corner
Don't have the time (or headspace) to pick perfectly complementary colors for your carpet and living room furniture? There's an easier way—make them all the same color. Using different shades of the same color will provide a coordinated look with minimal effort.
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Rikki Snyder
You can bring in more than one color into your carpet without a bold pattern or colorblocking. Instead, look for carpet with multicolored tufts, which provide a subtle touch of color.
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GInger Pawws
For a subtlety luxe look, pair plush carpet with a few touches of velvet, like in a throw pillow or ottoman.
The richness of the carpet will easily complement the lushness of the velvet accents.
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Mindy Gayer
Hardwood flooring isn't the only way to make your living room look older than it really is. For an equally vintage feeling, use carpet with a washed-out pattern for a subtle centuries-old look.
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Leila Talmadge Interiors
Who says living room carpet has to be neutral? It can also be rich and bold too, like this beautiful shade of blue. For a cohesive look, repeat the color elsewhere, like on the sofa or in wall art.
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The House That Black Built
An easy way to tie in your beige carpet to your living room (without making the whole space beige) is to have a piece of furniture that nearly matches it. Doing this makes the space feel cohesive, but not overwhelmingly carpeted.
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Design: AMC Interior Design; Photos: Mark Harrison Photography
For a rich and visually pleasing look, pair a lighter colored carpet or rug with deeply colored walls.
The two will contrast one another and create a grown-up space that will never go out of style.
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Anne Sage
For a pared-down living room that doesn't feel too cluttered, pick a coffee table that has a similar color as your carpet. This works especially well with lighter colored carpets, and it can really open up a room.
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AMC Interior Design, Photos by Heidi Marfitt Photography
Just as you can have bold living room carpet, you can also have a bold area rug on top of it. This is a great choice if you want to go for a colorful look without the commitment.
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Blue Copper Design
If you want to add a rug to your living room carpet, but don't want it to blend in too much, pick a darker rug with a subtle pattern on it. This will create contrast and bring in some extra style.
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Henry Walker Homes
Create the classiest living room by pairing cream carpet with dark blue and gold accents.
Together, the color trio creates a rich, visually pleasing look that's ready for the fanciest of dinner parties.
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House of Chais
Not looking to show off your carpet? We get it. Instead, place a colorful or unique rug on top and match its color or pattern with your living room wall art. This will draw the eye away from your beat-up beige.
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Interiors by Rachel Fielding
Trim can really tie together a room, and it's no different when it comes to carpeted ones. Make sure your living room has baseboards—not only do they protect your walls, but they provide a nice buffer between the carpet and the wall too.
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Katie LeClerq Design Studio
One of the best things you can do in you decor is to combine texture, especially when it comes to carpets and rugs. A textured rug atop a textured carpets can give your living room a unique, high-end feel.
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The House That Black Built
Another great way to boost your living room's personality is by pairing simple-as-can-be carpet with a fun floor texture, like vintage tile.
Together the two highlight one another, while preventing either one from feeling too dominant.
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Katie LeClerq Design Studio
A room-sized rug is a great answer to the question of what do with unwanted carpet.
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Renovating The Broadway
For a taste of something different, a carpet with a subtle weave and low pile mimics the look of wicker. It's an easy way to bring in texture, and low pile carpet is easier than most to keep clean.
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Devon Grace Interiors
Another great way to incorporate the look of your carpet throughout your living room is by using similar curtains. That way, your carpet colors are seen vertically and horizontally.
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My Little Detached Home
A bright or richly colored rug against a sea of neutrals brings in a lovely touch of color that makes your living room uniquely you.
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Wall-to-wall carpet can be a big bummer in an otherwise awesome house or rental apartment.
If you don’t have the permission, the desire, or the budget to pull all that carpet up and deal with what’s underneath… you’re stuck with a flat expanse of warp, pile, and weft. Don’t worry—replacing wall-to-wall carpet is NOT the only aesthetic solution you have.
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All the homes in this post are proof that you can either live with, design around, or distract from this feature in a way that makes your home not only livable… but even lovely. These are the top three ways to deal with your home’s wall-to-wall carpet.
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Clean it really, really well
I’m not talking about running a vacuum over its surface a few times. Whether you’ve been in your home for a while or you are just moving in, it’s worth investing a bit of time, money, and energy into giving your wall-to-wall carpet a deep clean.
Why? Not only will it just feel better (anyone else get creeped out walking over carpet? Like… what else has been on this carpet over the years?), but it may even look better.
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You won’t know if you really hate your wall-to-wall carpet until you look at it in a fresher form. Perhaps the distracting stains and dull brown color aren’t permanent! What if a deep clean reveals a lighter, lovelier shade of beige?
The point is, you’re going to have to clean your carpets sometime, so do it now and then step back and reassess the carpet situation. You may find out you don’t hate it quite as much as you did before. You may just be able to live with it.
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Layer over it
This is the most popular option for dealing with wall-to-wall carpet you don’t like but will cost a bit of money.
The basic premise is pretty simple, though… just ignore the fact that you have carpet and place rugs in your rooms how you would if you were decorating as usual.
If you want to create visual areas in one room, use smaller rugs layered on top of the carpet and under furniture arrangements. But if you really hate the carpet, splurge on a room-sized rug that you can use to just cover up the bulk of the wall-to-wall carpet. Successful layering attempts below:
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When all else fails, distract
If you’re just not into your wall-to-wall carpet or the idea of putting rugs on top—and cleaning didn’t put much of a dent in your hatred of it—you can try the distraction method.
Grab enough colorful, patterned, and bold items and place them around the room with the carpet you’re trying to distract from.
Keep the colors high and off the ground. You won’t completely forget you have ugly wall-to-wall carpet that you hate, but your eye will be pulled toward the more vibrant objects. It won’t work magic—you’ll still have wall-to-wall carpet—but you’ll be surprised at just how well the beige plane will sort of melt into the background, allowing your style to take the visual stage.
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