Drapehaus
Drapehaus
Preparing the room
Drapehaus
Preparing the room
Rug size planner
A rug is sized by the furniture it gathers, then checked against the room around it. Set your room below and the planner draws both to scale, from above, on a terracotta floor.
8 × 10 ft · advised
Room
Rug style
Standard sizes (ft)
Rug
8 × 10 ft
2.4 × 3.0 m
Floor border
3.0 ft
each long side
In a sitting area, the front legs of every sofa and chair should rest on the rug, with a margin of bare floor around it. We confirm the size on site, against the real furniture.
In short
For most living rooms and bedrooms the planner lands on 8 × 10 ft; a table for eight usually needs 9 × 12 ft. The rule behind it is simple: the rug should hold the furniture that belongs together, and still leave a band of bare floor — at least 1.5 ft — on every side.
Using the simulator
Choose Living, Bedroom or Dining in the Room row. For Dining, set Table seats to 4, 6 or 8.
Move the Room width and Room length sliders to your room, in feet. The drawing redraws to scale, with the door and window in place.
Read the advised size, marked in the Standard sizes row, and the Floor border it leaves along each long side.
Tap the other sizes to compare them. A size that crowds the walls greys out, and the rug is outlined as too big.
Switch Rug style between Hand-knotted, Dhurrie and Modern to judge how pattern reads at that scale.
What the simulator shows
Rugs are woven to a handful of standard sizes, and the planner offers six: 5 × 8, 6 × 9, 8 × 10, 9 × 12, 10 × 14 and 12 × 15 ft. Each is shown in metres too, since floors here are often measured both ways.
It picks the smallest of these that meets the furniture and still fits the room. If nothing meets both, it falls back to the largest size that fits. A made-to-measure rug can sit between these sizes; the standard ones are simply where most planning starts.
In a sitting area, the rug should run under the front legs of the sofa and of each armchair. That ties the group together; a rug floating in the middle, touching nothing, leaves the furniture looking adrift.
The planner draws an 8 ft sofa, two armchairs and a coffee table, and asks for at least 7.5 × 9.5 ft of rug beneath them. That is why an 8 × 10 is advised in most rooms. In a larger room with deeper seating, try 9 × 12 and see whether the border still breathes.
Under a bed, the rug sits lower down, starting a little below the bedside tables and running well past both sides and the foot. The point is where your feet land in the morning, not what the pillows rest on.
The planner draws a bed of around 5 ft across — a queen in Indian sizes — and advises 8 × 10 ft. A king is about a foot wider, so the side margins shrink; if the room allows, pick 9 × 12 in the size row to keep a generous frame of rug on each side. Both are rules of thumb, and the real bed and bedside tables decide it.
A dining rug is sized from the table outwards: about two feet beyond every edge, so a chair pulled back to sit down stays on the rug instead of catching its back legs on the edge.
The planner uses a 3 × 4 ft table for four, 3.5 × 6 ft for six and 3.5 × 8 ft for eight, and adds four feet to each dimension. Four and six seats both land on 8 × 10 ft; eight seats need 9 × 12 ft. A round table follows the same rule, measured across its diameter.
The Floor border figure is the bare floor left along each long side. The planner will not advise a size that leaves less than 1.5 ft, because a rug that runs almost to the walls reads as badly fitted carpet rather than a rug.
Around 2 to 3 ft is comfortable in most rooms. In an open-plan space, treat each zone as its own room and let the rugs sit clear of one another.
| Furniture it assumes | Minimum rug | Usual advice | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living | 8 ft sofa, two chairs, coffee table | 7.5 × 9.5 ft | 8 × 10 ft |
| Bedroom | Queen-width bed, two bedside tables | 8 × 9.5 ft | 8 × 10 ft; 9 × 12 for a king |
| Dining, 4–6 seats | Table up to 3.5 × 6 ft | Table + 2 ft each side | 8 × 10 ft |
| Dining, 8 seats | Table 3.5 × 8 ft | 7.5 × 12 ft | 9 × 12 ft |
See it at your own window
The simulator narrows the choice. At the house we bring the real fabrics, hold them up to your light and measure every window.
In Goa
Terracotta, Kota and old mosaic floors are cool underfoot and handsome bare, so a Goan room rarely wants a rug to the walls. The wider border the planner leaves is part of the look: the floor frames the rug.
Houses closed for months, or left through the monsoon, are easier on a rug sized to lift. An 8 × 10 can be rolled and stored dry by two people; a 12 × 15 is a bigger undertaking. Keep that in mind before choosing the largest size a room will take.
FAQ
Usually, yes. At 5 × 8 ft only the coffee table sits on it, and the sofa and chairs sit around it rather than on it. It works in a small study, at the foot of a single bed, or in front of a single loveseat.
It can, in a large room with a 10 × 14 ft or bigger rug. In most rooms, front legs on and back legs off is the better balance, and it keeps the rug to a size you can lift and clean.
Plan on 9 × 12 ft where the room allows, laid across the bed so it runs well past both sides and the foot. An 8 × 10 ft works in a tighter room, though the margins at the sides become narrow.
No. The Rug style row only changes the drawing, so you can see how a bordered hand-knotted design, a striped flatweave or a modern pattern reads at the size you chose. The sizing rules are the same for each.
It is a planning figure. It uses typical furniture sizes and treats the room as a plain rectangle. Doorways, a longer sofa or a wider table all change the answer, so we confirm the size on site against your furniture.
