Grey & Silver Rugs: How to Choose One and What to Put With It

We make 68 rugs where grey & silver carries the design. This is what that colour does in a room, and how to place it.

What grey & silver does to a room

Grey is the safest colour in a rug and the easiest to get wrong. Cool greys sit happily against white walls, black metal and cool-toned wood; warm greys read as taupe and clash with them. Decide which you have before you buy anything else for the room.

What to put with it

Cool grey wants white, navy, black and chrome. It fights with cream, oak and brass, which are all warm. If the room has a lot of natural wood, a mink or a warm grey will settle better than a slate one.

Where it goes wrong

A flat solid grey shows every crumb, hair and footprint. A grey with tonal variation through it hides all three, which is why almost every grey rug we make is multi-toned rather than plain.

Which rooms

Living rooms and bedrooms, and it is the default choice for a rental or a room you are still deciding about.

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

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.