I hate rugs!

Why do rugs have to be so gosh darn expensive?  I mean, seriously.  Do people really spend thousands, and I do mean thousands, of dollars on one rug?  What makes them so expensive?  I was thinking about $200 for a rug, but as always the price in my mind is never right.  My living room is in desperate need of a rug, and I am super picky.  At this point, I am so tired of looking at rugs that I want to scream!

We have purchased two rugs and taken both of them back.  The first one we bought from Ikea, and I loved it!  I still do love it.  It's the perfect color and design.  However, it's too small for our space.  I need at least an 8x10 rug and this one was only 6x9.  At this point, I am so devastated because I really loved it.  It felt good on your feet and it was priced exceptionally well at only $100.

You can also see our new leather couches in this picture.

The second rug we bought was from Garden Ridge.  Once again, it was a great price of $100.  It looked much brighter in the store, and I really thought it would work.  Our furniture in the living is dark and our laminate wood floors aren't light either, so I really need a rug with some brightness to it.  I don't want rainbow or neon bright, but something in the rug needs to pop.  Well, this particular rug just fell flat and the brown seemed too dark.  It wasn't as soft as the rug from Ikea either, but it was the perfect size at 8x10.  Also, the green color in the rug didn't match my bright green accent wall.  I really don't want to settle on the rug because I feel like it's an important part of our living room to tie everything together so we took this one back as well.

Apparently, I deleted the picture of it in the
house.  So I only have this one from the store.

I have spent countless hours browsing the internet for rugs.  I have looked at random rugs websites that Google suggested.  I looked at Wayfair, Zulily, Kohl's, Walmart, Target, Amazon, Overstock, Rooms-to-Go, and probably several others.  I have found very few that I liked, but they were $500+ and I refuse to spend that much money on a rug.  I considered buying a beige rug and painting it, so I did some research.  I don't think I'm patient enough to paint an 8x10 rug for my living room hoping that I don't screw it up.  So, I'm stuck in a rut, and right now I hate rugs!

Here are a few of the ones I have seen recently that I like, I think.  Unfortunately, I don't know if I'm head-over-heels for any of them, but I haven't seen them in my living room.  It's so hard to tell from pictures if they would work, if the colors are bright enough.  Thankfully most of these places offer free shipping, but what about shipping it back if I don't like it?  Ugh.  I wish I weren't so picky.

$250

$300

$500

These two I threw in as extras just because I am so tired of looking at rugs, and they seemed similar to the previous rugs.  I don't even know their prices, and if I did they would probably be out of my price range.

This next one is, of course, the perfect rug.  But it's priced at a lovely $1100.  I am definitely not spending that much money a freakin' rug!

Maybe I should just find a solid colored rug instead of trying to find something with multiple colors and designs.  I don't know.  This has been a very frustrating process.