Mixing Vintage and Contemporary Rugs for an Eclectic Look

Decor choices can make or break your home, and if you make design choices that don’t go together, you’ve made a big mistake - or at least that’s what people want you to think. At OBEETEE, we advocate for mixing and matching decor themes, because our large collections of carpets provide a myriad of designs to pick from. In our opinion, curating an eclectic look allows you to send a message through your home decor, a statement that can speak to your unique tastes and sense of adventure. 

A foolproof way of assembling an eclectic look is to mix vintage and contemporary carpets, allowing the contrast in design to create a compelling narrative for your most intimate spaces. In today’s publication, we will take you through our design team's techniques for pairing traditional and abstract patterned rugs to inspire your next decor revamp. 

As we ease you into the idea of mixing the vintage and contemporary, we want you to consider how you can work with the space you want to furnish. For instance, if you’re thinking of redesigning a bedroom, it may be fun to play with the sizes of the carpets. Our pick for a bedroom includes our Kasmo Hand Tufted Woollen Rug, a larger piece best suited to be placed under the bed or to fill a large floor space between the bed and a wall. 

https://www.obeetee.in/products/kasmo-hand-tufted-woollen-rug

 

With hand-tufted threads of blue, grey, and beige splashing across the canvas, the Kasmo rug is evocative of the ebbs and flow of the sea, painting a picture of foamy waves crashing into each other on the beach. With such a visually arresting design, a good way to complement the carpet while filling up floor space is to add a smaller carpet at the entrance of the room or in a passageway. Our choice for this purpose is the Suryawansh Hand-Knotted Jute and Cotton Runner, a simple design in traditional fibres. A sandy carpet with white accents dotted across the surface, the colour palette and understated design of this runner make it a suitable accompaniment to the Kasmo, a delightful interplay between the vintage and the contemporary.

https://www.obeetee.in/products/suryawansh-hand-knotted-jute-and-cotton-runner 

 

Contrasts between vintage and contemporary designs can also be employed to distinguish between designated spaces in a living area. If you have a smaller living room, you can place one carpet as the centrepiece of your entertaining area, congregating sofas and side tables around it. Our Asenath Hand Tufted Woollen and Cotton Rug in grey with a geometric design is a good fit for such a living room, as the angular design will accent the edges of your furniture, adding a modern finish to the space. The grey and white colours will also allow the rug to blend seamlessly into existing colour schemes in the furniture of this space.

https://www.obeetee.in/products/asenath-hand-tufted-woollen-and-cotton-rug 

 

A sidebar for coffee or tea, or a fully-fledged bar stocked with glasses and beverages usually finds its place near a central seating area, nestled beside a wall. If your house is similarly planned, a comfortable way of transitioning from the seating area to the bar can be by using a contrasting carpet. Our recommendation to draw the eye from the seating area to the bar is the Mosaic Hand Woven Dhurrie, a traditional diamond pattern woven in maroon, white, and grey. Colourful, yet understated, this carpet may not be the loudest in the room, but it will add character to the nook, working in tandem with the Asenath to accent the different sections.

https://www.obeetee.in/products/mosiac-w-hand-woven-woollen-dhurrie.

Our suggestions for pairing the vintage and the contemporary represent just a fraction of the possibilities available to you, with collections ranging from abstract and geometric to the vintage traditional. If you’re looking for something special, our festive collection, Viraasat, a collaboration with leading Indian designers, is an expression of our collective cultural heritage and artistic legacies in the medium of the carpet. Learn more about our collections online at obeetee.in or in-store at our flagship locations pan-India in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, and Pune, with more to come soon.