I have several dogs too and I've also been looking for a area rug for the living room. I'm very seriously considering Flor carpet tiles. I'd prefer a persian rug, but since an individual Flor tile can be cleaned if it gets soiled it seems a very practical option with dogs.(I swear I don't work for Flor)

I vote on the Desa Rug. The golden design really matches the burgundy sofa.
By the way, the wall pictures looks great!!

I vote Desa Rug as well. It has some more decorative elements of a persian rug with a great earthy color. Seems like a good compromise in addition to working well in the room.

On the Persian Rugs you seem to be favoring the blues. Perhaps because of the blue throw and your walls with the bluish tones? It looks like the room maybe a little dark--I would love to brighten it up. I think if you go with option 4 or 5, you allow yourself more flexibility to punch up the accessories with a wider variety of colors. Perhaps you could then choose some pillows with burgundy paired with other colors, or go totally on a contrast to bring in more light. Some suggestions for pillows are
1.I love the yellow and grey ikats/ stripes and the highland pillows. There are plenty of mix and match options. http://www.westelm.com/products/embroidered-diagonal-stripe-pillow-cover-t548/?pkey=cpillows&cm_src=pillows||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_--_-
2.http://www.westelm.com/products/kantha-quilted-pillow-b699/?pkey=cpillows&cm_src=pillows||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_--_- burgundy ties the multicolored kantha pillows together to your couch
3. The Silhoette collection or the Kashmir bloom collection on this site, would also be unusual and lovely choices.
http://slateandcoral.com/silhouette.html
http://slateandcoral.com/kashmir-bloom.html

I vote a sisal or jute with a colored border

Another pick for the Desa rug. Part of the reason is also that it is wool. I am a bit weary of rugs made of polypropelene.

I like the Desa rug the best, but I also found this one Pottery Barn as well:

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/alaina-wool-rug/?pkey=crugs-by-style&cm_src=rugs-by-style||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_--_-

I think it would bring in some blue, which you tend to favor, as well as help to tie in the burgundy of the sofa you currently have. The pattern is Persian-esque, so it may appeal to your husband as well.

I love the idea of introducing more blue, which would counterbalance the too-warm color of the couch. The sea-greenish blues would work really well, I think.

I vote Desa rug too. I think the hand-knotted sea blue one would look great too, but the rest of the decor is more contemporary so I think it wouldn't quite fit.

I like the Desa rug but perhaps something with a little more gray in it. Love the burgundy/gray combo.

I like the Hand-knotted Oriental Sea Blue Wool Area Rug because it should look nice with the floor, walls, and sofa, and it'd be very easy to pull some lighter colors (e.g., ivory) from that rug for sofa pillows. The lighter pillows will really brighten the space.

Another dog person and another vote for Flor tiles - you can search "dog friendly" on their website for a large selection.
I was considering Jute too until my mother told me that they are hard to clean. However, I think Flor has some imitation jute/sisal tiles.
You could look for indoor/outdoor rugs too.
I am slowly abandoning the idea of natural fiber rugs.

Don't go too neutral or receding. I think you need to find something that ties the colors in better and balances out the dominating burgundy. A patterned rug would be much better IMO and patterns can cover up stains better too. I vote something along the lines of Kristy from Spain's suggestion above. All the colors, rugs, and furniture pieces are great in and of themselves, but they need to tie together and come into better balance. Textiles are perfect for this. I'm not a fan of jute in spaces where you want to lounge and relax. They are scratchy and don't feel good under the feet, also impossible to clean. They look great in a breakfast room or 3 season porch. I don't recommend them for a living room.

You seriously need something to wake this room up. All the link rugs are a snore (I suppose it could be your camera or my monitor).

If you decide on an oriental rug, get a real one with real vibrant colors. I promise it won't look garish if it's decent quality. Maybe a garden rug that includes maroon and mustard. If you google the term, you will see examples. A garden carpet will have many squares with different designs, or sometimes diamond shapes. There is usually a pool shape in the center, often with four "waterway"s to the border. A garden rug is NOT the ones that look like fields of flowers! In Oriental rugs, the floral motifs are highly stylized.

Good oriental rugs are a multi-generation investment, get a good one that you will want the rest of your life and that you can pass down for generations.

Saying this nicely, sometimes when you have something you are having a hard time getting something to go with means it is time to take a hard look at the thing you already have. Meaning, unless you absolutely love that couch in that color, it may make sense to think about whether the couch should be replaced before you spend a bunch of money on a rug picked specifically to go with it. I had a friend who picked a couch and rug to go with a family room in a house she bought that was painted a dark pink, because she didn't feel like painting, when ultimately she later decided the room didn't work and had to paint it (and then deal with the rug and conch choices she had made.)

I think your walls are painted gray, no?, and you painted the walls this color because you like them this way. Unfortunately, the couch does not go with your newly painted walls. So don't buy a rug based on how it goes with the couch. If you don't want to replace the couch now, buy a rug that goes with the walls and whatever color your future couch (that goes with the walls) will be. You can also look into slipcovers (not a bad option if you have dogs), or covering a lot of the couch with a a blanket-type throw or blanket (works like a slipcover for dog hair as well).

If you do love this couch in this color, then consider repainting the walls. And, if you want a rug that goes with this couch, you need a colorful one that adds enough color to stand up to and balance out the strong and large couch color (whatever your wall color). I would then suggest a persian style, but not in the muted colors of the ones you linked to, but in stronger colors. A rug that has a border with a background color in the maroon family (it doesn't have to be the same color as the couch, but just similar - from a dark rust to any maroonish shade) and a main area background color in a color that is opposite the color wheel from the maroon/reds (like a greenish shade - that's the opposite of maroon on the wheel - or perhaps a dark navy blue - but not a lighter blue as you seem to be picking) will work best with your couch color. The dark navy background with stand up to your maroon, while the rest of the colors in the rug with balance it out.

As to material, stay away from the jutes - you'll never get the dog hair up, and you can't really clean them at all. The polypropylenes you've chosen are easily cleanable and a good choice with dogs. Wool is cleanable, though not cheap, so if your animals (or you) need a rug that can be cleaned frequently, that's not your best choice. A good choice for you may be to get a large carpet remant at a carpet store and have it bound into a rug - these can be cleaned cheaper, like carpets, and not as expensive as cleaning knotted persian rugs. You could go nylon or wool, whichever you prefer. You could find a pattern or tweedy-multicolor that might work well, or a paler color in the maroon or purplish family (they seem to have lots of remnants in these shades whenever I look at remnants).

If you want an easily cleanable cheaper option, I've put cotton rag rugs that are 6 x 9 ft in large washing machines and dryers in building or in laundromats and used them (and washed them) for years. If you get ones that are well made, they stay looking good forever. If you want a larger one, but want to be able to wash it easily, you could get two smaller rugs and use them side by side. They often come in colorful options (usually stripes) that come in some colors that go with your couch, though I'd suggest a solid color here - again, something darker in the same hue as your couch - like a navy blue or something equally dark-ish - this would work well if you are toning down your couch with a blanket throw spread over much of it. Good luck.

honestly, i'm not a huge fan of any of these rugs, but that might just be my personal taste shining through. if i had to pick, i'd choose the desa, but before i saw the options, i thought the rug from this room would really make the room pop with a graphic quality it's currently missing, plus the dark gray would hide pet hair and look good with both the blue and burgundy (and your room doesn't have to have a midcentury modern theme to go with the rug).

To make that sofa work with the walls/color scheme, I would:
1) get rid of that bright blue throw & dark throw pillows
2) rug with a geometric repeating pattern in black/white or blue-grey/white (stripes/chevron/checkered etc)
3) simple natural fabric throw pillows in white or with black piping (or some other simple pattern in BW or G). You could possibly integrate some pillows in washed out paler shades of the burgundy to reflect the tone your wall color choice.

I like the picture wall!

if you don't want to invest for a lifetime OR watch said investment destroyed by your pets, try an inexpensive traditionally patterned rug from a discount store. I have had one I got at Kmart in my dining room for 15 years, still get compliments on it, and don't have to cringe when the cat claws it or guest spill stuff.

Another dog owner here. Don't go for jute or natural fiber weaves if your dogs are barfers (one of mine is). I'd go with a synthetic wool that can be vacuumed and spot-cleaned with ease.

I suggest a more modern dark grey/ charcoal carpet, perhaps with a bit of a white pattern or outline in a repeat pattern, it will go with your walls and pictures and to tie it all together I would get sidetables with a lamps with a silver base and perhaps a black patterened shade and a few black/ white patterned pillows and silver accesories in the rest of the room.

Following the above comment I found this link to give you an idea of what I meant! http://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/rugs-usa-inspire/charcoal/200HJHK21B-26010.html

I think the best options are neutral. The Desa rug and any durable jute rug is great and would warm up the space a little bit. The other options would weigh the room down, not an appropriate set up for a plush oriental carpet.

I think some yellow/gold accents would look fantastic in this space.

I'm with your boyfriend -- a Persian or kilim style rug will better match the rich look of the sofa. Something with camel or gray as a central color will probably hide the dog fur and yet tie everything together. I also agree about the yellow/gold accents.

If it has to be one of the provided options, then my vote goes to the Desa rug. I have two light coloured dogs as well and I believe this one would be best for you. All the blue rugs look more green than blue on my monitor though I know monitor display is nothing to go by in terms of colour. But I think the sofa is a pretty dominant piece so I don't like any of the patterned rugs. If you stick with a neutral rug it will give you more options in terms of the rest of the decor in the room. JMHO, of course.

It seems you are favoring a muted blue scheme for your rug. If you are keeping the couch for the long run, I would lean more towards a Persian rug with both reds/maroons and blues to tie the room together. If you see the couch leaving soon, I would go for the rug that you really love.

I just ordered a rug from esalerugs.com (it will be arriving on Monday) so I can't say anything yet about their service/rug quality, but they have an enormous selection of rugs. Possibly browsing their collections would give you a better idea?

Considering you have dogs that shed and track dirt, here's my $.02:

1) as others have said, don't go with any sort of grass-type fiber (jute, sisal, etc.), even blended with wool. They absorb liquids, and one dog barf, rainy muddy day, spilled cup of coffee, even water stains, will likely ruin the rug. We had sisal rugs for a few years, and within the first 2 years, they looked like hell (we have a dog that barfs occasionally and likes mud - what dog doesn't?)

2) Go with a pattern, not a solid color - patterns will hide the dog hair and dirt better than a solid rug. I'd also take a look at patterns that incorporate the burgundy as a secondary color to help tie everything together, with a neutral primary color.

3) seriously consider flor tiles. We're switching over to them ourselves - they're so easy to clean, most of the patterns are nylon, so stains don't absorb; they're recyclable; you can replace a single tile at a time if you need to. Take a look at: milliner in brown, or for all-neutral palettes, line please, lacebark, morning coffee, sound check, etc.

I'm sorry... what part of the Desa rug matches that sofa? It's neutral. It matches the floor which, as you can see in the photo, doesn't match the sofa at all.

If you're going for one of the rugs you posted, go with #3... the hand-knotted rug pulls in the colors of your walls and sofa. Then all you have to do is pick a pillow accent color and you're good to go.

I say no rug

You're trying too hard to match the sofa. I would get an Ikea Stockholm Rand rug. Add a brass and glass coffee table, and some very textured throw pillows in colors like gold, orange and rose.. This will make the sofa pop, rather than disappearing into a bland "scheme".

I don't have a strong opinion on any of the rugs shown, although I think they are all lovely. I do agree with previous posters who have said that matching the rug to the wall might make your sofa really stand out in that room--and not in a good way. I think you might want to bring in a rug with bolder colors to balance the color of the sofa (unless you are planning on replacing the sofa, then match whatever you think you want your future couch to look like!). I also noticed that there are some huge price differences between the rugs you have chosen. If I were considering spending $1,000 on a rug, I would want it to be a rug that I absolutely loved!

Also, not sure why people are not recommending wool with pets. We have several wool rugs, and recently got two new dogs. There have been quite a few accidents on the rugs, but they have all cleaned up without any problems!

Second that. I'm a multiple large-breed dog owner myself, and the truth is, no matter what type of rug you get, no matter what fabric, you are going to be spending 60% of your time with that rug cleaning it, 40% of your time trying to ignore that it needs to be cleaned *again*, and 100% of your time hating that rug for being such a soul drain. And feeling married to it because it was an investment. AND trying not to resent your dogs, who are really just innocent pawns in the whole thing.
Upshot? Rugs are Iago to you & your pups' Othello & Desdemona. Don't let it happen! Love your pups, forget the rug, and get a bright, modern (and wipeable) coffee table instead. It'll lift the area visually, and be useful besides. Good luck!

I'm assuming you don't necessarily want a soft, plush rug since you're looking at jute rugs...so given the dogs, maybe you could an outdoor rug? These might go with your couch:

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Outdoor-Indoor-Grey-Blue-Area-Rug/7521417/product.html

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Damask-Polypropylene-Area-Rug-53-x-76/2992615/product.html

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Safavieh-Courtyard-Light-Grey-Anthracite-Grey-Indoor-Outdoor-Rug/7357033/product.html

Otherwise, I would go with FLOR tiles.

Just one question. Why have a rug at all? If the dogs lie on it, you won't get to walk on it anyway. Try living without one, put a sturdy coffee table by the sofa where the rug would go and see how that works out.

Check out the Alyson Fox Chevon rug at West Elm. I think it might match look fantastic if the burgundy colors are close.

http://www.westelm.com/products/alyson-fox-chevron-rug-t417/?pkey=crugs-flooring&cm_src=rugs-flooring||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_--_-

The sky-blue blanket on top of the burgundy sofa looks fine to me - why not try this unusual combination? A lively shade of blue would help to set off the dark burgundy surface from the floor.

Oriental rug with mostly gold tones, maybe a little blue, burgundy and gray.

Gosh, you've gotten so many suggestions. Now here's my two cents. I wouldn't go jute or sisal or any of those natural fibers. They are very hard to clean, and with dogs - a muddy paw print or an accident (from either end), and....well, you'd end up with a stained rug.

I wouldn't go ANYTHING expensive with dogs.

And I wouldn't go Persian. Too formal. Or with an outdoor rug. They LOOK like outdoor rugs, most of them.

Can you take one of the couch cushions, or zip off a cover from one, and actually go out shopping? Go to your big box stores like Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, etc, and look around. You may find just the thing. If there is a Tuesday Morning store in your area, or a Ballard store, try there. They often have good rugs for reasonable prices.

The problem with ordering online is that the colors are often deceiving. What looks beige or tan may actually be more of a yellow or gray tone. What looks red or burgandy may be rust or mauve, and you just don't know until you get it. Then when you put it down, it looks different still. At some online places, you can order a sample, and that's better, though they are often so teeny tiny you can't get a good feel of how a big piece would look.Speaking of that, I wouldn't go with an enormous big print or abstract, either.

I might, like someone suggested, try living without a rug for awhile. You might try different colored or print throw pillows and find one so perfect you'll want to use it for rug inspiration. Don't rush. Take your time and make the right choice. Good luck.

I agree with an earlier poster that the answer is to get a different couch or slipcover the one you have if you wish to keep the walls that color. The rug issue comes after the couch/wall color issue. Good luck!

I posted earlier, but now I want to say something else. I don't know why people advise you to change out the sofa when it may not be a good option. You may love the couch and want to keep it. It looks in perfectly good shape, and fairly new. I'm sure you must have liked it or ou wouldn't have bought it. So keep it. I don't think it looks bad at all with the wall color. I'd find a way to pull it all together. Slipcovers for that sofa would be very expensive. Work with what you have. Some throw pillows in another pattern or color or texture will go a long way in dressing up the room. Sorry for the sound-off, but it just bothers me sometimes when people seem to think the only solution to a decorating problem is to throw everything out and start over. Sometimes it is, but then again, in your case, you have some nice things going in the room. Go with it. Start out with some small changes in accessorie and work up to a rug. ♥

I think the rug has to stand up against the bold sofa color, and I would go for a colorful pattern rather than a neutral sisal, both for the bold look and to hide dog stains. I could see a Persian-style rug with a bold color combo. If you are going to invest in a rug I would avoid anything too trendy unless you really like the pattern. I kind of like that piece of rug you have there too. Too bad you don't have a bigger piece of that.

So here are some bolder options:

Amalfi Paradise Rug slightly contemporary twist on a classic rug
Super vibrant Charlotte Blue-Green Rug
Black and Teal overdyed rug
super casual rug made out of denim

I don't like Flor tiles, as trendy as they are, because I think they are overpriced office carpeting. On rare occasions I have seen some article or show where they look kind of cool but usually they just look like . . .floor tiles.

Here's a kind of cute indoor-outdoor rug from Target. I wonder if an indoor/outdoor would be a good option with dogs. Some of them seem just as nice as indoor rugs.