What colour rug?

When you're (re)decorating your home, one of the most important factors immediately comes to mind: colour. Colour brings a room to life! It largely determines the look and feel of your interior, the atmosphere and, of course, how you feel. But how do you make sure you choose the right colour for your home? While black can be combined with any colour, shades like purple or green are trickier to work with. We're usually quick to decide which paint colour we want on the walls and which colour cushions to put on the sofa. For a rug, though, we often go for a neutral colour, because it ties the other colours together a bit more. Did you know that a colourful rug can also be a connecting factor in your home? Okay, we can well imagine that feels like a risk and a step outside your comfort zone. Still, we'd like to challenge you to take that step with us. In this article, we'll take you through the different colours and colour groups.

The important factor is colour

Choosing a colour goes far beyond simply picking what you find attractive. Colour has a big psychological effect on us, often without us realising it. To help you understand how the colour groups are put together, we'll first explain which colours can evoke certain feelings in you. Colour affects your mood, brain, state of mind and behaviour. While a dark room can bring on gloomy feelings, a light room lifts your spirits. Since the colour spectrum covers an enormous number of colours, we'll start with the primary colours blue, red and yellow.

Blue Blue gives a sense of trust and familiarity. It offers calm, security, reliability and wisdom. Blue is also often associated with water, the sky and cold.

Red Red radiates strength. It stands for passion, courage, impulsiveness and stamina. The colour is also often associated with fire, danger and warmth.

Yellow Yellow evokes a cheerful feeling. It offers freedom, happiness, fun and excitement. Yellow is also often associated with positivity, friendship and intelligence.

Primary colours can be mixed together, creating new colours that each bring their own feeling. To keep things clear, and above all easier for you, we've put together a number of colour groups within which you can find the perfect rug. Together, the colour groups cover every colour in the spectrum. That's a lot of choice? Definitely. But a colour group does make it easier to rule other colours out.

Colour group #1: dark shades

This colour group includes every shade of black and grey. With a dark colour, you might first think of negative feelings, gloomy thoughts and mystery. That's not so strange really: think of blackening someone's name, a black sheep, or a dark page in the history books. Yet the colour also symbolises positive ideas such as elegance, strength and professionalism. Black goes with every other colour, so you can always combine a black rug with your new decor.

Grey is a beautiful and versatile blend of black and white. The colour comes in many shades, offering plenty of possibilities. In this colour group, we're talking about the darker grey tones, also known as anthracite. A grey rug has the power to bring your home together as a whole and give you a calming feeling.

The dark shades colour group is easy to combine and works well in many interiors.

Colour group #2: light shades

This colour group includes colours such as white, cream and the lighter shades of grey. These lighter colours reflect and accentuate the other colours you use in your living space. The lighter colours contrast with the darker colours in your home and create a sense of space. Light colours are associated with calm, balance and tidiness.

Like the dark colour group, the light colour group combines perfectly with any other colour in the spectrum.

A white rug can give you that extra push just before bed to truly unwind. Thanks to its neutral colour, a white rug means your brain doesn't get any extra stimulation.

Colour group #3: earth tones

A group that falls outside that contrast, but is certainly no less important, is the earth tones colour group. This group includes colours such as beige, taupe and brown. Natural colours you constantly come across in nature. As a result, earth tones evoke positive feelings and calm. Brown gives us an association with nature and the earth. The colour stands for security, warmth and modesty.

The earth tones colour group also has the advantage of combining well with many other colours. With a beige rug, you can add the finishing touch to an industrial, bohemian or Scandinavian interior. Not just for its calming character, but of course also to give your feet a soft surface underfoot.

Colour group #4: orange and terracotta

Orange is a colour that's created when you mix the primary colours red and yellow. Orange gives us an adventurous, creative and optimistic feeling. The colour stimulates, grabs attention, fascinates and expresses freedom and fun. With an orange rug, you bring a cheerful, summery atmosphere into your home that makes you feel good. Orange also comes in many shades, so there's a rug out there to suit you too.

A colour we're seeing more and more in interiors, and one that certainly can't be missing from this colour group, is terracotta. When we say terracotta, you probably think of the brownish-orange plant pots in your garden. Terracotta is translated from Italian as 'burnt earth'. Terracotta itself comes in a number of shades and combines well with the colours from the earth tones colour group, but also, for example, with a velvet armchair in petrol blue.

Colour group #5: yellow

A primary colour that simply deserves its own colour group is yellow. A yellow rug does more than bring freedom and cheerfulness. Yellow confronts hidden fears, helps overcome emotional blockages, and even supports personal growth. After all, you're never too old to develop yourself! It's no surprise that yellow makes us happy. You could even say that yellow gives you a fictional dose of vitamin D. This vitamin, of course, comes from sunlight. And who doesn't feel happy in the sun?! You can just imagine how cheerfully you'd wake up with a yellow bedroom rug.

Colour group #6: red and pink

Red and pink both stand for love. Where red is passionate and bold, pink is soft and gentle. A pink rug is reminiscent of infatuation, which over time might grow into love for a red rug. Both red and pink bring up plenty of positive feelings on their own, and together they can reinforce these feelings really well. Where red gives you a powerful and impulsive feeling, pink strengthens this with innovation, renewal and freshness. Red and pink are more often associated with the feminine, so these colours are also often found in a girls' rug.

Colour group #7: green

We associate the colour green with nature. Trees, grass, vegetables. Can you think of anything green that isn't connected to sustainability and nature? Green offers you balance in energy, optimism, and harmony and peace in life. It's no surprise, then, that we feel happy when we walk, cycle or drive through a green landscape. Not only is the view breathtaking, the area is often rich in oxygen too. Remember that biology lesson on photosynthesis?

A green rug might not pump extra oxygen into your home, but it can thankfully still evoke plenty of positive feelings. Green brings harmony and calm into your home. Combine it with fun, exotic plants and a mango wood coffee table, and you'll have your own jungle in no time!

Colour group #8: blue

Is it really fair that we often link the primary colour blue to cold? Perhaps. Even though it's cold, a beautiful winter landscape is still breathtaking. In fact, blue holds so much more beauty than we might first think. Blue can definitely evoke warm feelings too. Have you ever thought about how a blue rug can make you feel like you're on the Caribbean islands? Especially when you've based the rest of your home's decor on a 'beachy' vibe.

A blue vintage rug offers an expansive atmosphere, radiating inspiration, peace and calm. It also works against a rut in your routine, letting you give your creative ideas free rein. Adding blue to your interior suddenly doesn't sound so strange after all!

Colour group #9: multicolour

Can't choose from the colour groups mentioned above, but still want to bring some colour into your home? Then you could go for the multicolour colour group. Won't that be too busy or over the top? Not at all. When developing a multicolour rug, careful thought goes into which colours work well together and reinforce each other in a rug. This combination creates a striking rug that really becomes the eyecatcher of your living space.

Did you know a workday is never dull with a multicolour office rug? Laying down a multicolour rug gives your brain a creative boost time and time again. Every idea you get, you'll want to act on as quickly and effectively as possible. It doesn't just add atmosphere to your workspace, it also prevents scratches on the floor caused by the wheels of your office chair sliding around.