Custom rug with Simply Grove

A few months back, we had the privilege and honor of working with Kirsten Grove, of the very awesome blog Simply Grove, on a custom rug design for a special project.

The rug and entire room look amazing! Check out Kirsten's feature on her blog here .We love it!
Read on below for details about the process of creating this custom rug.

photo credit ~ Kirsten Grove of Simply Grove

We started out with some basic concepts around the style Kirsten and her client were looking for: striped or geometric, vintage and southwestern styles.
They settled on this image of a rug I had modified from other designs and actually created for my own home.

sketch modifying a previous design

finished rug in my foyer 

Now that we had nailed down the design direction, it was time for us to talk about color!
I sent Kirsten a colonial mills' yarn pom, which is basically a big ring of all the yarns and fabric we carry in house. We encourage designers to use this pom as a working tool from which they can pick color combinations for their designs.

Kirsten's client, Kayla, getting ready to pick her colors from the yarn pom!
photo credit ~ Kirsten Grove of Simply Grove

They decided on a black and off-white color scheme for some real pop. The rug, meant for a dining room, also needed to be larger than the original design we were working from. Therefore, we had to work on the appropriate scale for the diamonds to get just the right look.

The rug getting some finishing touches in our Rhode Island factory

Thank you to Kirsten Grove and Kaley for including us in this project.
We had so much fun!

~Meredith