Shag Rugs Add a Touch of Seventies Style

When you want authentic seventies style, no one piece of decoration is more important to your home than a shag rug. Sure a lava lamp is also high on the list but to really set the atmosphere of your home back forty years your need the room filling presence of an authentic shag rug on your floor. To be true to your purpose, it is important to select a shag rug in colors you would never normally choose to include in your interior design plans. We are talking colors like avocado green, bright orange, and canary yellow. Throw in a couple of more normal colors such as brown or white, not individually but all mixed together in patches of shaggy pile and you have yourself a shag rug in authentic seventies style. It may not go with your furniture so why stop there? Get rid of that sofa and lounge chair and compliment your shag rug with the official seat of the seventies, the bean bag chair. A half dozen or so bean bag chairs distributed around your living room should provide ample, and really rather comfortable seating for you and your guests. Now all you need are a couple of lava lamps (see, I told you they were high on the list) and a dark wood end table or two to set them on and you have yourself a complete retro seventies living room set. If you really want to go all the way with this, put up some floral wall paper, or some faux wood paneling and paint your base boards and interior trim orange, avocado green, bright blue or maybe a pastel yellow and the effect will be complete. You can lower the shades, turn on your beta max, sink into your bean bag chair and revel in seventies nostalgia in an atmosphere owing heavily to your classic shag rug.