Welcome to another edition of small home style, a series dedicated to sharing creative design ideas for Small Home Dwellers. While living in a smaller dwelling has its design challenges it also creates so many unique opportunities to design every space in your home with intention. This week on #SmallHomeStyle I'm sharing my love of bar carts. As many of you know, bar carts have had a major design comeback for the past few years. They're truly of on the most versatile pieces of furniture for small homes, basically they're and absolute design must. They look so good in almost any room + since they have wheels it makes them super easy to move around as needed. Breaking down all the reasons your #SmallHome needs one!

Pump Up the Volume in Dining Rooms

Barcarts make fabulous additions to dining rooms and provide extra storage to hold liqueur, glasses, plates, pretty flowers and even lamps.

Perfect Living Room Addition

Bar carts are a stylish addition to living rooms, they can double as a side table next to the sofa filled with books and liqueur. I love how they add a glamorous look in small living rooms.

Bar Cart = Amazing Plant Stand

When you have a small living room, it can be tough to find the perfect spot to place plants, that's when a bar cart comes to the rescue. Plants look stunning on bar carts.

Bar Cart as a Nightstand

Bar carts, work perfectly in small bedrooms, just like they glad a touch of glam in living rooms they look so good in bedrooms.

I hope you love bar carts as much as I do! In need of a few ideas to style your bar cart for everyday? Then this post is for you! Small spaces inspire me and I would love to see yours, use the hashtag #SmallHomeStyle to share your fabulous small space. Also, if you need some help pulling together design ideas for your small space, feel free to shoot me an email at Hello@ChicLittleHouse.com and let's chat.

What's your favorite way to use of bar carts?

For the past couple of months, I've been wanting to make some changes in my living room and freshen it up. While, I love the flat weave rug in our living room and the color grey. It was just too much grey, grey sofas + grey walls + grey rug = grey overload. One of the cool things about having hardwood floors in your home, is they can handle loads of color. After looking at a slew of rug options, I came to the conclusion a natural fiber rug for our living room would be a fantastic option and look timeless.

I'm a modern girl at heart I love clean lines and non-fussy spaces and I also love classic elements in rooms that look good year after year. I'm all about staying power when it comes to my foundation pieces in my home. I've been a fan of natural rugs for quite sometime, specially woven jute rugs. Prior to re-building our floor, we had a jute rug in our living room. Jute rugs just look so timeless and can be a great foundation for laying another rug on-top. After searching high and low, I found a fantastic Woven Jute rug, and I'm in love!

Our new rug arrived about three weeks ago, and I wanted to make sure I absolutely loved the rug before sharing all the deets on the blog. I ordered the Barley Twist Jute Natural rug from West Elm for an incredible price, only $399 for a 9x12 rug. Which was a total steal! I was a little nervous to pair a natural color rug with my grey sofas, but they look so fantastic together.

I'm also happy, I went with a larger area rug this time, the 9x12 rug fills out our small living room nicely and basically floats in the room, with about 1.5 feet to spare. Another plus, is the light color and larger size helps to create the illusion our living room is bigger by drawing your eyes down and out. We placed the new rug over our existing rug pad to give the jute jug extra cushion + help protect our hardwood floors.

Barely Twist Jute Rug Pluses & Negatives

The woven pattern & design look fantastic both in real life & in person
The bottom of the rug is almost flat woven like, nagative - the rug can;t be flipped
Its pretty soft underfoot, but can feel a little bumpy
We've experienced a little shedding on the rug, which is normal since its made with natural fibers

I was a little nervous to unroll the rug since our puppy is only 8 months, I was mostly concerned with him getting overexcited and marking our rug! I was also nervous about his nails potentially getting caught in the rug. So far all my fears, haven't happened! Our puppy seems to like layer on the rug.

I'm seriously smitten & addicted to Jute rugs, they're perfect options for high traffic areas. My family spends a lot of time in our living room and this rug will for sure get a lot of action. Next up on my list to update in our living room, pillows. You all know how much I love pillows and now that my floors have gotten some love, its time to give my sofas some love with new pillows. I freaking cannot wait until the goodies arrive in my mailbox, I'm so ready to do a happy pillow dance. I'll share more pictures of our living room, along with some additional changes I'm considering making to our space once the pillows arrive and are in place.

What time of rug do you have in your living room? Are you a natural fiber rug person too? What do you think our new rug?