11 Large, Neutral Area Rugs under $400

Brittany Ambridge

Who wants to help pick a rug for our living room! The townhouse makeover saga continues. The last roundup I did was in search of the perfect round table (which had been tabled until after the kitchen reno), but now I’m searching for a large, neutral rug to ground the main living space. Our downstairs is one long, skinny rectangle that we’re trying to visually break up into a defined entryway, living room, & dining room. A nice big rug should do the trick and keep our furniture from flying across the tile.

It just needs to be 4 things: 1) comfortable 2) large enough to span the “living room” 3) neutral enough to go with the unfinished/undetermined dining room and our green mid-century mod couch 4) ideally not cost a whole savings account.

Jason Frank Rothenberg

I am so thankful major retailers have stepped up their rug game- I remember looking for large, cheap rugs in college and couldn’t find anything that wasn’t either neon bright or dingy grey. I’m particularly impressed with nuLOOM’s rugs! A lot of those are featured as they got great reviews and come in multiple sizes.

Werner Sträube

And to make this a fair comparison between prices, I tried to list the prices for rug sizes closest to 8×10. Some of rugs only go up to 5×7, but the majority of them can be ordered in larger sizes.

1. Urban Outfitters 5×7 $189
2. nuLOOM 7’10″x10 $250
3. Lorena Canals 5’7″ x 8″ $350
4. nuLOOM 8×10 $175
5. nuLOOM 8×10 $289
6. AllModern 7’10” x 10’3″ $250
7. Target 7×10 $300
8. World Market 6×9 $400
9. Home Depot 8×10 $182
10. Urban Outfitters 5×7 $350
11. nuLOOM 8×10 $286

I’m leaning 2 or 3, but what do you guys think? I’ll have a pic of our living room up on Instagram (and add it here once I can shoot this weekend) to get your votes.

I’m also thinking 11 would be a perfect layering base and I’m tempted to grab 8 for our bedroom.