{"title":"Rugs by Colour","description":"\u003cp\u003eColour is the first thing anyone decides about a rug and usually the only thing they are sure of when they start looking. These are the fourteen we group by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pages below are grouped by what the colour does in a room rather than by where it sits on a colour wheel, because that is the decision you are actually making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eNeutral rugs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix of the fourteen are neutrals, and they are the largest part of what people buy. They differ less in colour than in what they do to a floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/white-rugs\"\u003eWhite rugs\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/cream-rugs\"\u003ecream rugs\u003c\/a\u003e lighten a floor. Neither is a bright white — the white rugs are ivory and off white, warm enough to sit with wood and pale walls, and cream goes a step further towards yellow. Both suit a bedroom or a quiet room better than a hallway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beige-rugs\"\u003eBeige rugs\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/brown-rugs\"\u003ebrown rugs\u003c\/a\u003e do the opposite and ground a room. Beige is the pale end and includes natural undyed fibre; brown goes darker and is the most forgiving colour there is for traffic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/grey-rugs\"\u003eGrey rugs\u003c\/a\u003e are the safest choice and the most bought, because grey goes with what is already in the room and does not date. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/black-rugs\"\u003eBlack rugs\u003c\/a\u003e work by contrast instead, and they need a bright room to do it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCool colours\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree collections, and they behave differently from the neutrals because they change the temperature of a room rather than just its weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/blue-rugs\"\u003eBlue rugs\u003c\/a\u003e are the only colour that actively cools a space. That suits a room with too much afternoon sun and works against a room that is already cold. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/navy-rugs\"\u003eNavy rugs\u003c\/a\u003e take the same colour to its darkest point and behave more like a dark neutral than a colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/green-rugs\"\u003eGreen rugs\u003c\/a\u003e are the most bought colour after the neutrals, and the reason is that green is already in most rooms — in wood, in plants, in the light through a window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWarm colours\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFour collections, and all of them add warmth that a British room does not get from daylight for half the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pink-rugs\"\u003ePink rugs\u003c\/a\u003e run from blush, which behaves almost like a neutral, to bright pink for a child's room. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/red-rugs\"\u003eRed rugs\u003c\/a\u003e are the oldest rug colour there is and still the boldest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/orange-rugs\"\u003eOrange rugs\u003c\/a\u003e means terracotta and rust rather than a true orange — the clay colours that came back after twenty years away. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/yellow-rugs\"\u003eYellow rugs\u003c\/a\u003e means mustard and ochre, and it is the colour to reach for if a grey room has tipped into feeling cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMulticoloured rugs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/multicoloured-rugs\"\u003eMulticoloured rugs\u003c\/a\u003e sit outside the other thirteen because they are not a colour choice, they are a palette. A rug carrying five or six colours gives you something for every cushion and every painting to agree with afterwards, rather than one colour that everything else has to match.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChoose one by its dominant colour rather than by all of them — the shade that comes forward when you look at it from across a room is the one it will read as.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eRug colour FAQs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat colour rug is the safest choice?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrey, and it is the most bought for that reason. It goes with what is already in the room, works in modern and traditional spaces, and takes traffic better than any pale neutral.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat colour rug hides dirt best?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrown, followed by mid grey and terracotta. Anything pale shows marks and anything very dark shows dust and thread, so mid tones are the forgiving ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eShould a rug match the sofa or the walls?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe walls. A rug that fights the wall colour is noticeable from the doorway; a rug that fights the sofa is only noticeable from the sofa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat colour rug makes a room look bigger?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA pale one. Ivory, off white and cream make the floor recede, which reads as more space. The trade-off is that all three show everything in a room that gets walked through in shoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDo you sell white rugs?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvory and off white rather than a bright white. A true white reads as cold on a floor and shows the first mark, so what people usually want when they ask for white is one of the warmer two.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/9950\/5537\/collections\/Foy_s_Interiors_-_Rugs_by_Colour.jpg?v=1785498033","url":"https:\/\/foysinteriors.co.uk\/collections\/rugs-by-colour.oembed","provider":"Foy's Interiors","version":"1.0","type":"link"}