Help making rooms flow

[sierramist03]

The rental that we put an application in on has a open concept dining room and living room. For our living room we want to keep our browns and shades of teal but our kitchen stuff is mostly reds and blacks so I would like to use the dining room to join all the colors.
Would like rug work? I'm going hang our light aqua blue curtains on the both windows. I want to spend under $200.

[sierramist03]

Or this one

[sierramist03]

This one is my very favorite but it's over budget and double the price of the first one

[sierramist03]

This one is my very favorite but it's over budget and double the price of the first one

[magdala]

Either rug should work. Another way to give rooms flow is to pick a color from each of the adjoining rooms. Red and black kitchen to red and brown dining room to tan, brown and teal living room.