Anyone who wants to add an extra touch to their home decor can opt for layering rugs. With this technique, it is possible to make environments more beautiful and differentiated.
You can do this overlay in several rooms in your home, such as the living room, bedrooms and even the kitchen.
However, you need to understand how to layer carpets in a way that does not pollute the look of the room! So, find out here what you need to avoid when combining these pieces.
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Why use rugs in decoration?
In addition to making environments more beautiful and comfortable, the carpet can also help maintain the room’s internal temperature, as it reduces heat exchange, which can help warm your home during the winter.
Carpets also help with the acoustic insulation of the space. This is because they are able to muffle sounds, making environments quieter.
Furthermore, these pieces are also great for delimiting different spaces. Therefore, if you have a room that is used as a living room, dining room and television room, for example, know that you can use different rugs to separate each of these spaces.
By layering rugs, in addition to guaranteeing all the benefits that this piece brings to the home, you can also make the environments more personalized.
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Where to overlay carpets?
This composition can be done in any room or space. However, architect Laura Hora, from the firm Mariana Lombardi Arquitetura, gives the tip of overlapping in integrated environments, such as a TV room and living room, which would use two rugs to unify the environments.
However, this composition can be used in other rooms, such as children’s rooms, especially if they are more colorful and/or patterned pieces.
This way, it is possible to make the environment more playful, comfortable and safer for little ones, as it helps to cushion any falls.
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How to make a carpet overlay?
A practical and affordable way to change the decor of your home is by layering rugs. Only by using these pieces will it be possible to change the style of the room and make it more beautiful and different from what we commonly see.
Therefore, check out below how to decorate your home with overlapping carpets, ensuring a pleasant visual aesthetic.
1. Consider decorating the living room with dark walls and red carpets.
Before you start overlapping, you will need to consider what the environment is like. If the room in which you want to make this combination has a more neutral decor, with light walls and furniture, you can use patterned or brightly colored rugs.
However, if the walls in your room are painted in vibrant shades or if you have colorful furniture, it may be better to opt for lighter pieces, so as not to make the room look too tired.
Furthermore, you also need to take the size of the room into consideration when choosing rugs. Therefore, measure your environment before purchasing these pieces.
This way, you will be able to avoid buying rugs that are too big or too small for the space you have available – even considering that they will overlap.
2. Choose pieces of different sizes and shapes Living room with overlapping rugs of different shapes and sizes.
A good way to do this overlap is by choosing rugs with different shapes, such as square and round.
This way, it will be possible to play with geometric shapes, which will make the environment more interesting.
You can also use rugs of different sizes, like the ones in the photo above. This is a good way to make a smaller rug stand out, or to use a piece that was considered too small for your room, placing a larger one underneath.
3. Use overlapping rugs to highlight a piece of furniture
Anyone who wants to highlight a piece of furniture, such as an armchair with a unique design, or a piece inherited from the family, can use carpet overlays to highlight the furniture.
One way to do this is to place a large rug to delimit a space, like the living room, for example, and use the smaller rug under the piece of furniture you want to highlight.
4. Overlay with rugs with similar prints Environment decorated with overlapping rugs with similar prints.
If you like to be daring, know that it is possible to layer with patterned rugs.
However, in this case, the ideal is to choose pieces that have a similar print, to give a feeling of balance and continuity.
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5. Combine a plain rug with a patterned one Living room with a plain and patterned rug overlay.
A way of layering rugs that tends to look very beautiful is the composition of plain pieces with prints, as in the photo above.
You can use a large, smooth rug with a neutral color underneath and, on top of it, place a patterned piece, or just a more vibrant color.
6. Use overlapping rugs to delimit environments
If you use the same room in different ways, such as a bedroom and home office, for example, know that it is possible to layer rugs to delimit these spaces.
One way to do this is to place a large rug in the sleeping area, and another smaller one, which can be placed at the end of this piece, or at any other point in it, to delimit the work area.
What not to do when overlaying carpets?
Now that you know how to layer rugs, check out what you need to avoid when creating this type of composition:
Laura Horta
Architect at the office Mariana Lombardi Arquitetura
Pay attention to the proportion of rugs in relation to the size of the room and furniture – too many rugs in small spaces pollute the environment.
Avoid using similar-sized pieces exactly on top of each other, so that it doesn’t look like you’re just using a rug. In this case, it is necessary to overlap the rugs at their ends; Do not use pieces with very different prints, as this can disrupt the aesthetic composition and pollute the look of the environment; Avoid using rugs with the same shade or very similar colors, as this can make it difficult to tell that there is more than one piece there.
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