For those of you with rugs underneath the dining table...

[Anonymous]

Did you buy the rug big enough for all the chairs to be on the rug or do your chairs sit off the rug?

[Anonymous]

Big enough for on the rug. Whatever you do, don't go for the middle. Nothing worse than trying to move your chair in and out over a rug border, and tripping it up or rolling up the rug constantly. You and guests should be able to move the chairs smoothly, whether on or off the rug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Big enough for on the rug. Whatever you do, don't go for the middle. Nothing worse than trying to move your chair in and out over a rug border, and tripping it up or rolling up the rug constantly. You and guests should be able to move the chairs smoothly, whether on or off the rug.

+1. All chairs on for us. Speaking of rugs under the dining room table, I had my house cleaned last week (not a regular thing), and I don't think they vacuumed under the dining room table because when I got home I found a barrette there that surely would have been sucked up by the vacuum. That's not normal, right?

[Anonymous]

All on the rug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you buy the rug big enough for all the chairs to be on the rug or do your chairs sit off the rug?

I didn't think about it much. They are on the rug when tucked in, but come off when some people are sitting.

[Anonymous]

Decorators always tell you to get a rug big enough to be able to push away from the table without the chair legs sliding off the edges of the rug.

[Anonymous]

I think the rule of thumb is 2 feet past the table on all sides.