Rug Size Planner

How it works

The planner works with the rules of thumb most interior designers start from. In a living room the front legs of the sofa and chairs rest on the rug, and the rug runs a little wider than the sofa. In a dining room the rug reaches far enough beyond the table that chairs stay on it when they are pulled out. In a bedroom the rug sits under the lower two thirds of the bed and frames it on three sides.

Between rug and walls the planner keeps a border of floor that grows with the room: around 20 cm in small rooms and up to about 45 cm in large ones. It then compares the ideal size with common rug sizes and tells you which ones fit.

The rules of thumb behind it

• Living room: front legs of the seating on the rug, the rug about 15 to 30 cm wider than the sofa on each side where space allows.
• Dining room: at least 60 cm of rug beyond every table edge.
• Bedroom: about 45 to 60 cm of rug beside the bed and beyond its foot.
• Border to the walls: roughly 20 cm in small rooms, 30 to 45 cm in larger rooms.

All values are widely used rules of thumb from interior and lighting design, offered as guidance and never as norms.