Red & Burgundy Rugs: How to Choose One and What to Put With It

We make 81 rugs where red & burgundy carries the design. This is what that colour does in a room, and how to place it.

What red & burgundy does to a room

Deep red is the traditional ground of the carpet world for a reason: it makes a large room feel occupied and warm in a way no neutral manages. It is a confident choice rather than a safe one.

What to put with it

Burgundy with navy is the classic Persian pairing. It also works with cream, brass, dark wood and forest green.

Where it goes wrong

Bright pillar-box red is very hard to live with. Burgundy, claret and madder-toned reds are not — they have brown in them, which is what makes them wearable.

Which rooms

Living rooms and dining rooms above all. It is also excellent in a hallway, where it hides traffic better than anything.

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 red & burgundy collection looks like red & burgundy rather than like a list of rugs that happen to contain some red & burgundy.

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.