At dwelling with Marni Jameson: When decorating a place, permit colorful location rugs have the floor | Home & Back garden

“Okay, good,” I think to myself, “but then what?”

“Just pull shade from the rug” is the rhetorical respond to.

“Oh, simple for you to say,” I believe. If you’re like me, you’re left wondering which shade, the place, how much of it, solids or prints?

Now, those of you who previously know the answers and feel this is quick, kindly go smugly off to read through some other area of the newspaper and leave the relaxation of us to muddle via.

Also, when I’m off the subject, let me to deal with another peeve of mine: That mocking term “just” (as in just pull shade) does not belong in any sentence that will involve residence decorating. I will depart it at that.

For me, this skill to “just pull a room alongside one another around a rug” doesn’t “just occur,” and nonetheless, my preferred rooms are these that appear to easily fall with each other around a fantastic area rug. When I face these a place, I check out to visually deconstruct it to figure out what is operating, but find no formulation. I craved the secret.

So, lately, when I came across a image of a residing space inside of an historic Manhattan townhome in the West Village, which experienced at its main a vividly patterned, home-unifying rug, rather than speculate, I termed the inside designer powering the job.