A statement rug is the easiest way to give a room a personality without touching the walls. It's art you can stand on. Here are eight with real character, and how to make one look chosen rather than random.

1. A royal flush

The Royal Flush Playing Cards Rug is bold black-and-white spade cards in a thick, soft pile, 32 x 24 in, non-slip and machine washable. It suits a bedroom or a game room.

2. The Akatsuki cloud

The Akatsuki Cloud Rug is handmade, so each one is one of a kind. For anime fans it says everything with one piece.

A handmade Akatsuki red cloud rug

3. Boxing gloves

The Boxing Gloves Tufted Rug Set shows a pair of red gloves in a hand-drawn style, in dense tufted pile with an anti-slip backing. Each rug is 30.3 x 21.3 in.

Red boxing glove tufted rugs on a bedroom floor

4. A heat-map silhouette

The Heat-Map Silhouette Tufted Rug is a colorful figure in heat-map colors, 34.6 x 31.5 in, with a non-slip backing. It reads like a piece of modern art.

A colorful heat-map silhouette tufted rug

5. An optical illusion

The Optical Illusion Round Rug has a 3D visual design that looks like a hole in the floor. It's washable polyester.

6. The whole planet

The Earth Round Rug is soft and fluffy, in bright orange and yellow, and works in a bathroom, doorway or bedroom.

7. A big checkerboard

For a bigger room, the Green Checkered Rug is 5' x 7' with a soft short pile, a non-slip backing, and it's machine washable.

8. One with your own photo

The Custom Photo Round Rug is printed with an image you upload through the Customize option on Amazon. It's washable without fading and has an anti-skid backing. A pet, a band, a place: great as a gift.

How to make it look chosen

  • One statement rug per room; keep the other textiles plain.
  • Repeat one color from the rug in a pillow or a lamp.
  • Give it space: don't cover half of it with furniture.

All of them in Statement rugs.