How do I determine area rug size for living room and dining room?

Two things to consider first: what shape of an area rug would you like? Rectangular or oval? Now how to decide? Get a piece of paper: quad paper would be great as the squares will make things so much easier or you can use your computer. If you're computer savvy and have Excel, you can make a page of squares. Next using either your sheet of paper or your computer, make a scaled box representing your rooms. Now consider what furniture you have in those rooms. Area rugs, those that take most of the room would be about 2' smaller than the room size, meaning 1 foot smaller from each wall. To visualize this you can draw a second rectangle to represent this dimension. them draw the furniture in the room (from a birds eye view from the ceiling). Adjust your rug dimension until you feel comfortable with the size (or can afford!). What about oval? You can do the same, just round the corners, the length and width are the same, just no corners. This is easy with the computer in Excel as the shape function will draw this out by dragging the size you like.

I hope this helps, sorry for being so wordy.

Hello, measure the room across each way. For example: if it measures 8x10 buy a rug that comes in a few inches on each side, so you would want about a 6x8 rug for this size room.