I love the rug but I tend to love Jacobean style prints. I also adore touches of orange. Fifteen years ago I ordered a pair of chairs that have a lot of orange in the print. I loved them and still do. Taupe, orange, and sage sounds luscious to me so it sounds like you have a good start!

This is one of my all time favorite dining rooms! Actually the whole farmhouse. I too love the wallpaper but am wondering if the rug is too matchy with the wallpaper. Personally if I were using that wallpaper, I would not use a rug with the same background as the paper. I would pick a rug that had some of the rusty orange in it however.I agree that I would never have thought to use the rug Sarah Richardson used, but it all looks good together.
Hope to hear others thoughts as well.

Sarah's wallpaper in this room is fabric that she bought and had backed to hang as wallpaper. It's one of my all time favorites and is called 'Lotus Garden' by Schumacher. This is the 'Lacquer' colorway. If you wanted to make window treatments from it, it's hard to find now, but it's listed on this site that I have linked below.

Per yard price is not for the faint of heart!

Here is a link that might be useful: Lotus Garden - Lacquer Price Per Yard: $164.50

You should use the rug you love, if you choose wall paper stay away from one like Sarah's, you'd have two stars in the room fighting for the stage.

I love the rug! And I agree it has a folk art feel to it the works with a modern country style. I'm pattern phobic so I'd be doing a lot of solids and probably neutrals to make the rug really stand out, but I am sure you can go with more pattern and make it a lovely room with more depth from having more pattern.

I don't want to do a pattern paper, maybe a grasscloth of some sort so I'll have some texture.
The fabric for my chairs will probably be a neutral taupe in something very sturdy. The other area I would use pattern would be the curtains, so I will have to post my options when I figure that out.

The patterns on the rug and wallpaper are about the same size ---scale--- so I would not use them together in the same room. A wallpaper more like Richardson's curtain fabric would be fabulous, though! Or YI could use that medallion style and stencil the walls all over, which is a budget friendly option and looks great in the rooms I've seen on GW and elsewhere.

I found some great curtain options,so if anyone is still following here they are. I'm posting the pic of the rug again so you don't have to scroll all the way up to the top to see it.

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I'm thinking I could add a ribbon of blue to a couple of these just to make them feel a bit more custom. It's hard to see in the rug pic, but there is a blue accent on the center of many of the flowers.

I like the second from the top best. And the bottom one second best.

Second from the top would be my choice as it's more subtle yet similar to the rug.

Yes -- another vote for grasscloth -- and a vote for the second choice for the curtains ....

I like the Ikat pattern but then I love lots of pattern layered together in a room. That DR (one of my faves too) has 3 radically different patterns standing out in the room & a 4th on the chairs, so if you want that feel go for the pattern. You've already determined that you would like to use a solid grass cloth so that's taking out 1 of 3 bold patterns in the inspiration room. For me #2 is too sedate for the look you're going for. Don't get me wrong, option 2 and solid grass cloth will still look very pretty put just not following the same almost Bohemian Farmhouse feel of Sarah's room. My pick would be the Ikat #3. It's really pretty!

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I very much approve of the rug, but I wonder if it's wide enough. (You don't mention the size.)

The width seems to be about 2/3 of the length. Is it wide enough to work under your table, or will the chair feet (front or back) bump into the edges of the rug as diners pull in their chairs?

The rug is listed as 10x12, so is actually a foot wider than what I have now which is good. I don't think the pic is to scale from what I can tell.
I love all of the curtains for different reasons and change my mind hourly :D.
I prefer 3 and 4 at this time and am thinking that maybe I will do a stencil like #2 in the wall space on the built it. I like that pattern and would like to have it like a backsplash. That way I can still have that pattern in a prominent place and can use the stencil idea. I did a search on Fab and found a stencil that is almost exactly that pattern.

What a pretty rug! I like two or three.

I would get the rug in there first, before buying the curtains. The rug is gorgeous. Of the fabric you've shown, I like the ikat the best with the rug.

Agree on getting the rug and then, if possible, a sample of the curtain fabric. Many that look like perfect matches online aren't in person. I strongly prefer the #3 choice of curtains - the ikat.