Although placing rugs on carpeted areas is generally considered a design faux pas there are many reasons to put an area rug over your carpet and many ways to do this in a pleasing stylish way.
Do you put an area rug on carpet.
Better luck if it is a very short loop like an indoor outdoor carpet you are putting it on even a berber will give as you walk on in and make the upper rug buckle.
If you never walk in the room or move furniture if it is just to look at as in magazine.
The binding only keeps the carpet from unraveling.
On a hard floor an untethered rug is more likely to slide or slip but when layering area rugs over carpet the rug is more likely to wrinkle or ripple.
Rugs should always be anchored whether used on a hardwood floor or on top of carpet.
While area rugs usually lay on wood floors you can also lay an area rug over carpet.
If there is a pile at all on the rug don t use.
Don t put an area rug over a very long pile carpet such as a frieze or a newer soft carpet such as smartstrand because the area rug will not have firm support and will shift buckle and wrinkle.
As i stated above it never really works.