How to decorate your home after buying a Persian rug.

Hey adorable people,

I know I have been away for TOO long ! I just forgot to show up. I am a bit like that fish .. Dori ;)

You saved and saved and searched and searched. Finally you got that colorful wooly or silky piece of heaven: soft, colorful, sophisticated and enchanting. Now what ?

You need to rearrange your home to accommodate this beauty. Right? Here is my two cents :

1. Size: Your rug needs to be smaller than your room. Small enough so you can still see parts of the tiles (about 50 cm from each side, and maybe more). That is, covering your floor from wall to wall with a rug  is not a good idea. 
2. Color: Your rug does not need to match your furniture, curtain or wall paper. But it needs to create a good color compositions. It is like choosing the right colors for your dress. If you don't know about the color wheel , please look at this article.  
• There are some extra considerations though. For example, if you have yellow wall paper, you don't want a red rug, unless you are doing a commercial for McDonald's. 
• Never ever use a rug which matches exactly your tiles unless you want to conceal your rug from burgers. 
• There are lots of nomadic red rugs  from Yalameh (in Bakhtyari) or  Ghashghai (aka Qashghai, Qashqai).  Red rugs give lots of life to homes with light color furniture (white tiles etc). They go well with cream or caramel tiles too.  
• You gonna look at your rug a lot (I know you do , don't pretend you don't). So if you are the stressed type, you might want a green or blue rug. Central Iran (Kashan, Isfahan in particular) does lots of blue or green. Go for it. Matching green and blue with other colors is easy and they have a bit of edginess to them.
• If your babies, pets, or yourself are not toilet trained, don't buy rugs with white or cream background.  Lots of rugs from Nain have very light background (not all of them). 
3. Invest in buying some cool stuff: Turkish lamps, Persian miniatures, other handicrafts from Persia (Minakari, Khatam etc), rug stools, pottery , glasswork, box frame tables, antiques etc. It just gives your home an updated oriental look. 
4. Nomadic rugs, demand cool edgy decoration with lots of "thing-ish" things if you know what I mean. But city rugs demand a more elegant and classic look . More formal. I personally love nomadic rugs for bedrooms and city rugs for the living room. 
5. Lighting, lighting , lighting ! If you have a rug at home, you have a painting masterpiece. So get the lighting right. Some extra colored lamps could be nice for that mysterious oriental look when you have dinner guests. 
6. Go get a shoe rank and a door mat if you don't have one. Walking with dirty shoes on a Persian rug is ... sorry ... gross !
7. Over-sized furniture + a pretty Persian rug would look like an elephant in a kimono . Don't do it. It is not the size that matters. It is the proportion. I know what you just thought. You have a dirty mind. 
8. If you gonna place a coffee or dinning table over your rug, make sure you choose a thick colorful rug (nomadic rugs). It is not only because you want your rug to last longer but also because the rug should capture attention when it is mostly hidden under the furniture. 
9. Do not have too many rugs on your floor and on your walls unless you work in a Persian rug shop. If you need several rugs to cover a large room, that is absolutely ok but leave enough empty space between them. 
10. Try to go for simpler curtains. If your curtains have too much texture, a busy colorful Persian rug makes your home look like an oriental fortune teller's home with fizzy hair. You also might need a simple table cloth if you have a rug under the table. 
11. Runners are great things. They really make your corridor look great. Persians love them. Yalameh runners are just yummy and they have the same patterns as other Yalameh rugs. 
12. If you have an old aunt at home, don't use silk rugs. They are very slippery. Even if your aunt is rich, childless and grumpy, still make sure the rug is not slippery. 
13. Look at some Persian homes to see how they decorate their home. We Persians love having a well designed home (because for much of our history we have had to hide from our rulers). 

 Your Persian with LOVE <3