Choosing area rugs for your home may seem like a confusing task at first when there are so many styles, colors and sizes to choose from. Do not fret, as you have come to the right place. With just a few tips we can clear thing up and make your shopping for area rugs a whole lot happier and you are on your way to find the perfect area rug for your home or office. Here are a few quick tips to get you started. There are three things you must know at a minimum to select the right area rug: style, color and size.

Style: decide which style would complement your room's theme the best, such as contemporary, traditional, eclectic, etc. If the patterns in your other furnishing pieces are large, then try to pick area rugs with a more plain design or smaller patterns.

Color: To help you select area rugs by color, we have created a search filter specifically to do just that and it's located on this page (flower shaped colors above). If you are just beginning to select your colors, starting from area rugs gives you a lot of freedom to create your color scheme and help you build your colors from ground up. If you already have your color scheme in place, remember the rug's color doesn't have to be predominately matching the major color in the room. You could pick an accent color as the dominate color of the rug and remember, the lighter the rug, the bigger will make your place look and the darker the rug, the easier to clean and hide the dirt.

Size: here are some easy tips to measure your space to achieve a perfect balance for looks and practicality.

Measuring for Living room rugs: If you have have a coffee table and would like the area rug to be just an accent rug, measure the width and length of your coffee table and add minimum 2 feet to each number. This will allow a person to walk around the table and still be on the rug. The most common rug size used for this type of setup is a 4' x 6' or a 5' x 8' approximately.

If you do not have a coffee table or would like to cover more of your floor with your rug than just a small portion of it, you can go either with:

A rug which covers only between your furniture. Measure the space going slightly (min 1 inch) under the sofa and love-seat. The most common area rug size for this type of setup is an 8' x 10', 8' x 11' or 9' x 12', approximately.

Or the furniture sit completely on the rug which you would then measure the area where all your furniture will be within the space. The most common area rug size for this type of setup is a 9' x 12' or 10' x 14', approximately.

Measuring for dining room rugs: pull all the chairs out as if everyone was about to sit on the table. Now measure from back legs of two opposite chairs on the width and length of the table. The most common area rugs for dining room are 8' x 10', approximately. And 8' or 10' round for round dining room tables.

Measuring for bedroom rugs: the size of an area rugs would depend if you want you bed sitting on the rug or not, and what size bed you own. Most common size for bedroom area rugs are 8' x 10'.

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Yellow Area Rugs

People who use yellow area rugs benefit from it in more ways than most of them know. Yellow has excellent healing and soothing properties because of which it occupies an important place in color healing.

Color healing is an alternative technique that has been practiced by healers in some of the oriental countries for centuries. One of the techniques used by color healers, that has become most common, is that of visualization: the practitioner pictures the color in his/her mind and then, directs it to that area of the patient that needs to be healed.

Another technique is that of directing color onto the patient externally. The right intensity of the required color is produced by making direct sunlight pass through colored glass, plastic or cellophane. A variation of this method is using a photographic slide projector with colored plastic fixed to the mouth. This is better because the light can be more accurately focused onto the afflicted area.

Hydrochromotherapy involves treatment by the use of color charged water. An ordinary glass of water covered with a piece of colored paper or acetate and kept in the sunlight from six to eight hours becomes medicinal.

Having yellow area rugs in the house can be beneficial for those people who are physically and mentally not very strong because yellow helps strengthen the nerves and the mind. Color therapists recommend it for all nerve-related conditions or ailments. Using yellow colored rugs has other benefits also. It speeds up digestion and assimilation, and can be used to heal conditions of the stomach, liver or intestines.

For people working for spiritual uplift yellow rugs are simply indispensable, for it stimulates the solar plexus, which is the psychic centre.

Neutral Area Rugs

Some people like to use neutral area rugs for their room decor, often as something to make rugs more agreeable and complementary to other colors in the room. It makes it easier to find furniture and wall colors to go with the rug. Gray is the most neutral color. Some people go for gray area rugs because gray has a detached and isolated feeling and can be restful. Its importance in color healing can hardly be overemphasized.

Color healing is an alternative healing technique that uses the healing properties of colors for the purpose of treating diseases. It has been around for centuries, having originated in some oriental countries, but gaining popularity world-wide today.

Color healing is not magic, it has a scientific explanation. Light or colors have a vibration or energy. As the color enters the body, the energy from each affects one of the seven nerve centers or Chakras that correspond to the body's endocrine glands and cause them to secrete hormones. These hormones influence our bodily functions, thoughts, emotions and moods. Color healing simply rectifies the imbalance in the glandular function brought about by the disharmony of energy in one's being. This is done by such techniques as visualization, color breathing, drinking charged water, color bathing, using sympathetic magic for distant healing, regulating diet indicated by color, gems, clothes or cloth, decor, and rainbow healing.

Among neutral area rugs gray rugs is the most neutral. Gray rugs are popular because gray has a cooling and stabilizing effect when juxtaposed with more vibrant colors. People who like to live a secluded lives often like to pick gray rugs as gray evokes the feeling of detachment or isolation as well as a neutral, non-invasive feeling. Too much gray or the wrong shades of it however, suggests lack of imagination, character and initiative. So you should be careful not to overdo the decor with gray rugs everywhere. Most people when they talk about neutral rugs, they mean the other neutral colors like beige, tan, ivory and earthtone colors which have more warmth than gray.

Orange Area Rugs

The color orange has innumerable healing properties owing to which, somehow or other , it is beneficial to everyone. People who know this are always trying to come up with new ideas to have orange in their surroundings. What better way to achieve that than to cover your walls and floors with orange area rugs. (ok, maybe the walls are a bit too much)

The use of color in healing is called that, color healing. It goes back 5000 years. The Chinese, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Tibetans and the native Americans, to name a few, were adept in the art of color healing. They had a holistic attitude to healing. They used this art to heal not only the physical body but also the spiritual and the mental. Today color healing has become widely-accepted among spiritual healers.

Color is light or electromagnetic radiations that are visible. These radiations appear to us as color because of the capability of the object to either absorb or reflect the radiations. A leaf is green because it absorbs all colors except green.

The body and the mind respond to certain radiations in certain ways. This explains the effect of colors on emotions and moods. The type of response or the degree of the response is not the same for all. That is why before color is therapeutically administered, the individual's personal coloration is analyzed. Orange rugs are suitable and beneficial for everybody for their overall well-being : orange is associated with warmth and cheer, contentment, fruitfulness, balance, energy, strength and physical growth, prosperity, optimism and enthusiasm. People who easily fall sick should use orange rugs because orange increases immunity. It is also good for people with digestive ailments, or those suffering from chest and kidney diseases. However, it is advisable not to use the rug in bedrooms or living rooms because constant exposure to orange has negative effects.