Orange & Terracotta Rugs: How to Choose One and What to Put With It

We make 41 rugs where orange & terracotta carries the design. This is what that colour does in a room, and how to place it.

What orange & terracotta does to a room

Terracotta is warmth without brightness. It is the colour of the Heriz district and of unglazed pottery, and it does something no neutral can: it makes a cold room feel warmer.

What to put with it

Terracotta and blue is the great warm-cool pairing. It also sits well with cream, olive, brass and rattan.

Where it goes wrong

The line between terracotta and orange matters. Anything that tips toward orange proper becomes tiring quickly; rust and clay tones do not.

Which rooms

North-facing living rooms, dining rooms and halls — anywhere that needs warming.

A note on how we classify colour

We file a rug under the colour it reads as from across a room, not the colour covering the most surface area. An ivory rug with a strong blue motif is listed under blue, because that is how anyone standing in the doorway would describe it. It means the orange & terracotta collection looks like orange & terracotta rather than like a list of rugs that happen to contain some orange & terracotta.

The practical part

Every one of these is chenille polyester on a woven cotton backing with a non-slip finish, in all ten sizes — eight rectangles from 60 × 100 cm to 200 × 300 cm, plus 160 cm and 200 cm rounds — £50–£185 with delivery to the UK and Europe included. They wash at 30°C in a domestic machine up to 120 × 180 cm.