A letter that changed everything

The first Harry Potter book was published in 1997, and by the time the seventh arrived ten years later, the story of a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he's a wizard had become one of the best-selling book series in history. The eight films, released between 2001 and 2011, brought Hogwarts to life on screen, and the world has kept growing since, through stage plays, theme parks, a studio tour and games like Hogwarts Legacy.

For millions of readers, Hogwarts was a second home: the castle, the common rooms, the feasts in the Great Hall, the houses they were sure they belonged to. A Harry Potter rug brings that feeling into the room, whether it's a child's bedroom, a reading nook or a grown-up's study. Ours are printed into short velvet, so house crests, parchment textures and fine gold detail come out crisp, and they go in the washing machine.

The four houses

Ask any fan where they belong and you'll get an answer straight away. The house crests are the classic Harry Potter rugs, and each has its own colors and character:

House	Animal	Colors	Known for
Gryffindor	Lion	Scarlet and gold	Courage and daring
Slytherin	Serpent	Green and silver	Ambition and cunning
Ravenclaw	Eagle	Blue and bronze	Wit and learning
Hufflepuff	Badger	Yellow and black	Loyalty and hard work

A house rug in scarlet and gold, green and silver, blue and bronze or yellow and black is the easiest way to show which house you'd be sorted into.

A single house crest on a round or shield-shaped rug is the classic choice for a bedroom. For a family with members in different houses, the full Hogwarts crest with all four animals settles the argument.

Decorating like a common room

Each house's common room has its own atmosphere, and a rug is the easiest way to start one:

• Gryffindor Tower: warm scarlet, gold, a crackling fire and squashy armchairs. Pair a Gryffindor rug with warm wood and tapestry cushions.
• The Slytherin dungeon: green light, silver, dark stone and the lake beyond the windows. Black furniture and green-glass lamps finish it.
• Ravenclaw Tower: airy blues, bronze and a ceiling painted with stars, full of books. Our celestial rugs suit it beautifully.
• The Hufflepuff basement: cozy yellow, round doors, plants and copper. Add houseplants and warm lighting.

The Marauder's Map

The enchanted parchment that shows every corridor of Hogwarts, and the footprints of everyone walking through it, is one of the most loved objects in the series. A Marauder's Map rug, aged parchment, inked corridors, labeled rooms and wandering footprints, is a clever, beautiful design for a hallway, a study or a teenager's room, and it looks like an antique map to visitors who've never read the books. Mischief, as fans know, is entirely optional.

Platform 9¾

Here's an idea made for an entryway: Platform 9¾, the hidden platform at King's Cross that leads to the Hogwarts Express. A rug with the platform sign and a brick-wall border by the front door, or at the threshold of a child's bedroom, turns every trip through it into a little bit of magic. Choose Standard there: its 5 mm velvet clears most doors and its non-slip back grips the floor.

The Deathly Hallows and the Snitch

Some of the series' most recognizable symbols are simple shapes. The Deathly Hallows, a triangle, a circle and a line for the cloak, the stone and the wand, is elegant and graphic on a round rug. The Golden Snitch, a tiny gold ball with silver wings, is a playful choice for a Quidditch fan. Both are subtle enough for a shared living room.

Quidditch

Quidditch, played on broomsticks with three hoops at each end, a Quaffle, two Bludgers and a Golden Snitch, is the wizarding world's great sport. A Quidditch pitch seen from above, an oval of green with the hoops and markings drawn in, is a clever twist on a sports-court rug, perfect for a kid who loves both sport and magic. Add a house's colors to the stands and it becomes a match-day rug.

The Great Hall

Floating candles, an enchanted ceiling that shows the sky outside, four long house tables and feasts that appear out of nowhere: the Great Hall is where Hogwarts celebrates. Its look changes with the seasons, pumpkins at Halloween, snow-dusted trees at Christmas, which makes a Great Hall design a natural choice for holiday decorating. Our Halloween rugs and Christmas rugs have more seasonal ideas.

Wands

At Ollivanders, the wand chooses the wizard, and every wand is different: holly and phoenix feather, yew, vine, elder. A design of wands and their narrow boxes stacked on dusty shelves, or a single wand drawn like a botanical illustration, is an elegant Harry Potter rug for a study, and a quiet nod that only fellow fans will catch.

Hogwarts Legacy

The 2023 game Hogwarts Legacy let players attend the school in the 1800s, be sorted into a house, choose a wand and explore the castle, Hogsmeade and the Highlands for themselves. It brought many new fans to the wizarding world. A Hogwarts Legacy-inspired design, the castle from the hills or a house crest in the game's style, suits a gaming setup, with Standard under the chair.

Hedwig and the creatures

The wizarding world is full of creatures fans adore: Hedwig, Harry's snowy owl; Dobby the house-elf; Buckbeak the hippogriff; Fawkes the phoenix; Hagrid's three-headed dog, Fluffy; and the Niffler, who finds anything shiny. A Hedwig design, white feathers against a midnight sky, is one of the loveliest Harry Potter rugs for a calm bedroom. Animal lovers will also like our owl rugs.

The castle

Hogwarts itself, its towers and turrets lit against a night sky above the Black Lake, is the most romantic Harry Potter image of all. A castle design suits a living room or a large bedroom, and it's the best choice for a family room where everyone has a different favorite character but they all love the castle. In winter, with a blanket, a mug of something warm and the films on, it makes the whole room feel like the last night before the holidays.

Diagon Alley and the shops

Ollivanders, the Leaky Cauldron, Gringotts, Flourish and Blotts, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes with its exploding colors, and Honeydukes in Hogsmeade. A shopfront or sweet-shop design is a playful, colorful Harry Potter rug for a kitchen, a playroom or a reading corner.

Reading nooks and studies

Harry Potter began as books, and for many fans a reading corner is the perfect place for it. A rug inspired by the Hogwarts library, by a potions classroom with its shelves of jars, or by an old spellbook page, sits beautifully beside an armchair, a lamp and a shelf of well-worn paperbacks. Our bedroom rugs and office and studio rugs have more ideas for the room around it.

Kids' rooms

A Harry Potter rug is a lasting choice for children's rooms, because it grows with them, from first bedtime stories to rereading the books as teenagers. A house crest, Hedwig or the Snitch on a round rug makes a cheerful play area. On slippery floors, choose Standard, whose non-slip faux leather back stays put during play, and remember every rug goes in the washing machine after a spilled pumpkin juice.

Dorm rooms and first apartments

For students, a house rug is a small, affordable way to make a plain room feel like their own, and a sign of where they belong. A 2.6×3.9 or 3.3×5 ft rug fits beside a dorm bed, grips cold tile and can go in a washing machine at the end of term.

Sizes and levels

Under a desk chair, choose Standard in 3.3×5 or 4×6 ft: its 5 mm crushed velvet on a non-slip faux leather back lets wheels roll freely. In a bedroom or living room, choose Premium, 7 mm plush velvet on a bamboo and cotton back, in 4×6 or 5×7 ft. House crests, the Hallows and the Snitch suit a 3.3 to 4.6 ft (100 to 140 cm) round rug, and a crest cut to its shield outline is a striking option through our shaped rugs.

Gifts

A Harry Potter rug is an easy gift to get right: just ask which house. If you can't, the Hogwarts crest or the Marauder's Map works for every fan, whatever their house turns out to be. Every rug is printed to order in 1–3 business days and ships from Turkey; US delivery usually takes 2–5 business days after that.

Care

Vacuum on a low setting each week, blot spills with cold water straight away and wash the rug on a gentle, cold cycle when it needs it; let it air dry flat. The design is printed into the fibers, so house colors stay bright without any spells at all.

A note on the series

Letters by owl

In the books, letters arrive by owl, and Harry's first Hogwarts letter, addressed in emerald-green ink, comes by the hundreds before he finally gets to read one. A rug of a parchment envelope sealed with red wax, with owls circling and a flurry of letters falling around it, captures that magical first moment, and it makes a charming design for a reading nook or a child's first big-kid bedroom.

Padrift is an independent studio. Harry Potter and its characters are named to describe what our designs are inspired by; we are not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Warner Bros., Wizarding World or the author and publishers of the books.