I love Flokati rugs. I like to think I was ahead of the curve on this one, but alas, my blog wasn’t up yet, and now you can get them anywhere.
The cream-colored Flokati is the most popular and, naturally, the easiest to work with. In part as an experiment, in part because I was desperate, I decided to order the most non-non-white Flokati from my favorite resource for inexpensive modern rugs for my own living room.
I chose fuschia.
The rug arrived, and there was a lot that worked. The ironic pairing of the quasi-70s rug with huge, theatrically installed, green silk damask drapes was successful. It felt great underfoot and added actual and visual warmth to the north-facing room. But the color…oh, the color. Too much bubblegum, not enough raspberry. I was crushed.
Since it’s so much easier decorating other people’s houses than one’s own, I decided to have a stylish friend up the street check it out just to make sure.
Sarah walked in and said, “That’s FABULOUS! I mean, the color is all wrong, but what a FABULOUS idea for this room.” I sighed. It was fabulous, but it was also wrong. But then Sarah got a gleam in her eye and said, “You know where this rug might look really good?” Where? I asked. “MY living room,” she said.
So we rolled it up and marched it up the block, and lo and behold, it really worked. So there it lies proudly today, in front of a Victorian sofa and a modern oil painting. Fabulously.
As for me, I painted my living room and settled for a cream Flokati rug, and I’m living relatively happily ever after.
(Shameless plug just in time for Halloween: read Sarah’s gothic novel, Grange House. It’s beautifully written, spooky, and totally engrossing. Not what I usually have next to my bed, but I stayed up late for a week until I finished it. Now that would be a great book to read on a Flokati in front of a roaring fire.)