how to choose the perfect sized rug for your room! 

its been years for me, do they let you have rugs now? i remember just having one carpet/floor item

Yep! There's floors and rugs of all different sizes, shapes, and colours!

Hahaha that’s amazing. I need to fix my animal crossing house now

The older animal crossing games had a Feng shui mechanic that had an effect on the player’s luck.

the only house we can afford

How do you do that funky emoji?

@@JohnGottschalk it’s just in my emoji keyboard on RU-vid. I posted on my computer, not mobile, if that helps.

@@corinne_vintage oh yeah, don't have 1 of those!

That lines up with how it feels to be on the second floor of my apartment (4 rooms, the middle floor is the common space); the kitchen feels weird, the living room (the only area with a full rug) feels like it dominates the space and is the only inviting part of the room, the dining table and drum section of the space feel just so much like an afterthought and feel a lot smaller The living area and kitchen are opposite diagonally from each other, the whole floor is one large room with a bathroom behind the drums and the laundry behind the living area, the landing puts you right between the living area and drums, and you walk between those zones to the kitchen island, with the stairs to the upper floor on the right. The dining and drum sections are a little smaller, but not as small as they feel.

Awesome comment

@@cass6020ou definitely need a dramatic or dark rug under the drums in my opinion. Maybe something round or curvy.

I was wondering about this myself.

Vaccuming the rug under the dining table will be a hassle, though.

Oh, don't worry about the t.v.; it's the center of attention.

It deserves it.

It knows what it did.

Haha reminds me of “You don’t have a TV? What’s all your furniture pointed at?”

You got furniture before getting a rug???

@@NJOverclocked Furniture choice is constrained by more factors than rug choice, so it makes sense to make the more constrained choice first and then get a rug to match the furniture than getting the rug first and then trying to find furniture to match.

@@ragnkja agreed. We’re planning a redesign of our living room, we picked a general vibe and a color palette first. Then we chose a paint color while already knowing a vague color range for our sofa (most likely will be custom made for better fabric choice). Next we still need to figure out curtains and a rug but those will be shaped by the choices we already made because we know we can find a rug and curtains in pretty much any color shape and size we could imagine and we know furniture/layout is the most important to us so might as well pick the rug once we have all that figured out.

Well, he wouldn’t put it in a corner, he says you need the supporting wall behind you.

@@summerysandy5116 but in the past he also put the bed against the wall/corber often, simply because of lack of other options. From what I've gathered from him it's not to follow the Feng shui rules to the t, but rather to work with what you have and improve it as much as you can, using feng shui as a tool to reach that goal.

And as far as the rug goes, if it's a twin/single bed in a room corner, id chose a rug a tad longer than the bed and probably as wide as the bed and placing it out enough so the nightstand will still be on the rug, your feet touch the rug when you get up, you can comfortably stand /dress/undress in the sleeping area without having to leave the rug. Say you get a rug thats 160x230cm I'd put it on the headboard wall (so the nightstand will be on the rug) and cover half(or 2/3rds - depending on you room size and bed size) of the width of the bed and leave the rest of the rug out in the open. Honestly just try it out and see what looks good to you and your room placement. But the size should be a little bigger than the bed I'd say.

Yeah, I get my rugs, especially the large ones, from craigslist, they’re really expensive.

I am not a Feng Shui master, but I have found in open-concept living spaces that a couch makes a good visual grounding point for flow. I've had couches in the middle of a large space to anchor the living area from the dining area. I love open floor plans for kitchen / dining / living, so I love rugs and free-floating couches. :)

Following, I have the same situation

My vote is you don’t have to have a rug in both areas, I would probably only use one, so they wouldn’t clash or compete.

You can also build a zone using different techniques like setting up a visual distiction or separation like a row of storage units/drawers/flower stands.

He just told you to have a rug under each zone lol. Literally just said that. So yes, if you’re asking what he’d say, get a rug. It’s your life tho. If you don’t want to get one then don’t but it won’t be as inviting

He makes them out of foam, like the sofa and chairs are just foam blocks glued together.

I think some of the miniatures are 3D printed, and I am sure there is a free 3D printer schematic out there--and surely someone on etsy or a sweet DM fan with a printer could whip them up!

I know right? I went to find some and couldn’t. Maybe he should create a little marketable, feng shui layout kit complete with little furniture and grid paper.

My rug sits under the head legs, extends out one foot on either side, and five feet at the bottom. This feels very comfortable to me. I already had my rug before I moved in and the door opening is a problem any other way.

What I want to know is, these rules makes sense, why aren’t they taught in design more? Feng shui seems to be about the movement of energy, if I have a hard time envisioning it I picture in my mind where the light will fall, where the wind will come from. It’s like making paths for energy, is how I look at it from a western perspective.

You could create a separate little island or nook where people can escape to if you like. It's also possible if you want an intentionally simultaneous multi-functional space, where there are multiple smaller zones for different family members to do different things.

Your situation, I have found, is the only use I’ve ever had for a formal living room. Family room has most of the gathering, formal living room for those sitting and reading or visiting with just one other person..

@@summerysandy5116 I've seen those and always thought it was super weird to have so much house that you could have a mostly untouched, duplicate function room with a different mood rather than it serving a use that wasn't strictly social. That's a whole different financial rung and general mindset

Don’t use very small rugs! If they’re too small for a zone - they make good door mats!

It depends on the size of the rug I guess. The very small ones that go under the table are probably fine. I don't like them too much though

balancing on the edge furniture had all of the furniture on the rug but at the very edge, the other had the furniture placed so they were halfon the rug half on the bare floor

@@nohomo4774 It's a fine line.

sounds too small tbh, maybe get more small rugs to create a larger rug?

@@nohomo4774 I guess I'm thinking like animal fur in front of the fireplace kinda thing. Sometimes a nice rug is a place to occupy, rather than just a piece to tie the room together.

@@JohnGottschalk Sometimes it's helpful to think of a rug as a furniture piece instead of a decoration or zone-definer. The small one by my bed is so I have physical feedback in the dark; a cozy fur in front of a fireplace is almost a seat, inviting people and pets to hang out by the fire, where it's nice and cozy, or at least bringing that sort of vibe to the whole space. It's the sort of thing where it could technically be layered over top of another, larger, more zone-defining rug. It can live on its own, just like a chair can if you have no larger zone-defining rug, or you can turn it into a zone rug by putting some chairs with it, but your couch might be too large to fit on it and become an island if it had its own smaller rug/no rug, which might feel weird- so it might be better to either layer it on top of the larger zone-defining rug, or completely omit a zone-definer and have it be its own separate furniture piece (without chairs on it, unless you want a very small zone that feels separate from the rest of the room).

@@blaireshoe8738 could give every chair it's own rug, we're all on islands, and if we choose to communicate it's all the more meaningful because we chose it instead of the rug telling us to 😉

@@JohnGottschalk I didn't know I could guffaw, but this made me do it at 5am, haha. What a vibe that would be 😅 I am simultaneously anxious and intreagued just thinking about it x'D

@Natacha Fernandes, would a painted, flat canvas "rug" work for someone with asthma who wants to avoid a dust collector rug? You could get a large primed canvas from an art supply store, paints, and go to town on it.

@@fredericapanon207 I would, but I also have cats... 😁