Bedroom Rugs

The whole effect is helped if the rug is also longer than the bed, giving a good amount of rug at the foot of the bed. It's similar to the way designers like to see sofa and chairs all sitting on the rug in the living room and creating a luxurious and "un-squeezed" look.

In the bedroom, however, many designers like to see the rug laid just short of any bedside tables, giving more rug area to the bottom of the bed.

A good place to look for a bedroom rug to fit under a double bed is therefore under Extra Large rugs of at least 200x300cms sizes. The standard double bed is 137cms wide by 190cms long (a King Size bed is usually 150cms wide and 198cms long).

Colour-wise, most people seem to go for calmer colours and often in plain or simple designs (after all, a lot of any detailed design will be lost under the bed!).

But these rules may not always be best for you, so take a look at ideas for using smaller rugs in the paragraphs below.

Bedroom shaggy rugs

"Yeah Baby...!" shouts Austin Powers as he drags the shag pile rug back to his and its Sixties lair. Maybe the thick, long pile shaggy rug did pick up a bit of a reputation for modern, sexy pads in the Sixties and Seventies. But in recent years there has been a big revival, in fact making them more popular than ever in all types of homes.

In a world of renovated wooden floorboards, new wood laminates and other hard floors, UK flooring has become stern, cold stuff. This includes bedrooms, where more than in any other room, people want something extra soft and attractive to walk barefoot on and wake up to.

Shaggy rugs can be the perfect solution, providing deep, soft texture, as well as a huge variety of colour options for the bedroom.

Some people wonder about cleaning under the bed, especially with a long shagpile rug, and some about the cost given the amount of rug you ended up seeing! An alternative is to place two smaller shaggies either side of the bed as bedside rugs. For narrower, longer bedside rugs, consider a runner. Many of our current shaggy rugs come in runner sizes.

Bedroom rug or bedside rug?

Although the large rug under the whole bed has all that elegance and style, many people now also consider having two smaller rugs on each side of the bed. The standard small rug sizes are around 80 x 150cms or 90 x 150cms depending on the collection. Lengthwise these rugs will fit just over three-quarters of the length of a standard double bed.

If you have bedside tables, meanwhile, put them on the floor rather than on the rug, leaving only about a foot or so of floor left exposed at the bottom of the bed.

The classic bedroom look of a large double bed in the middle of the room is also becoming less common. Modern houses and apartments tend to have smaller rooms. Even in a larger house, sometimes only the master bedroom has the right size, with the other bedrooms being smaller. In these rooms the bed is often against a wall, or more likely two walls and in a corner.

Again, the smaller rug can be the answer, providing warm, soft texture next to the bed.