Damask meets the 1970s.

If the 1970s and Damask were to meet and have a rug love child, it would be this.

Um.  Yeah.  That's not going to work for us.

At first I couldn't find the rug in the store, and then I finally saw what SORT of looked like it, but NO.... surely not.  Then I saw that a runner was available to spread out on the floor.

Yep.

What looked brown in the online photo, was actually gold in real life.  What looked like a compact weave, was actually a shag.

Yeah, baby, yeah.  ha!

Do you know how annoying it is to load three children into a car, and then into a racecar cart..

 only to leave empty handed?  Hate that.

After my husband got off of work that evening, we went to 4 different stores, with no rug luck, finally making a full circle back to Lowes. 

I showed him some of the rugs that peeked my interest earlier in the day...

but we ended up going with a tannish, yellowish rug with a very simple Berber like weave.  I didn't even notice it on my earlier trip, but we both liked it and a great bonus was that it was ultra cheap.  We scored TWO 8x10 rugs for under $200.

When we got home and unfurled them to see all of their glory, we both stood back and wondered if we measured the room correctly, ha! 

(Ignore the crazy looking, disorganized room... exactly WHY this room is getting work done.)

Despite the size fitting scare, they do both fit, and I'm thinking we made a very good choice going with something so neutral.

Meanwhile, I've painted a wall in here, and our new console arrived today...  in two big boxes, and in one million tinnnny little pieces.  :)

-Courtney