Design Cliche: B&W rugs are the confusing cleavage of decor.

We're in another cycle of black and white and grey this Spring which I'm rather excited about.  

DAY Collection via Solid Frog

It's always classy and comes back every few years just like a new Britney Spears album.  


The bad thing is that with its return comes the dreaded black and white striped rug.

via Solid Frog

Christ y'all.  There is no one in this hemisphere cheaper than this Madame but I draw the line at putting optical illusions on my floor just because it's at Ikea.   And I've put some seriously questionable shit in my house because it was on sale.  I'm looking at you Urban Outfitters pillows...

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It's almost like there's nothing else in the room because even though I try to look around all my eyes can see is that seizure-inducing pattern on the floor.  I think there might even be some kind of horrible cancer-causing chalkboard on that dining room wall but who the hell knows because OMIGAWD MY EYES!!!!  Lesson: just because it matches doesn't mean it works.

 Emily Henderson

It doesn't even make any design sense to completely detract from every other piece of boring shit in your room.   Oh, maybe that is the point...  The striped rug is like inappropriate (and eye stabbing) cleavage.  Just like if your conversation is boring and you have a hard time talking in complete sentences because golly, reading and forming your own conclusions is hard then you put on a push-up bra and a deep V and shut up.   When your other furniture sucks and you can't figure out how to decorate anything just put the most graphically bold rug you can find on the floor to distract your guests.   But it's a trap...  Obviously you want me to look at it but manners say I should respect the entire package.  Hey, my eyes and attempt at artfully arranged bookshelves are up HERE assholes!

via Material Girls

Sure you might have spent a jazillion dollars on the rest of the furniture but nobody can tell because your floor tits are hanging out.  Show some respect and put those things away.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

via Head Over Heels

Sure it makes for a purty 2D image but if I was in the space all I would be thinking is "Don't look at the floor, don't look at the floor, don't look at the floor, look at the art, look at the art, don't look at the floor"  but eventually I'd find my eyes transfixed by the in-your-faceness of the rug.  The more you try to look away and ignore it the harder it will become.  Moley-y, mole-y, mole-y...   I don't know how you dudes do it. 

via Plush Palate

This might be the equivalent of having killer cleavage AND being an articulate conversationalist but those girls don't exist so I'm going to ignore this room for the purposes of this post.

via Head Over Heels.  I swear I read other blogs other than hers...

Zig zag induced epileptic seizure in 3... 2... 1...

If you're going to go for the most contrasting thing you can possibly think of it's best to stick with something small and tasteful like these:

Jonathan Adler via Whorange