Show how to place your rugs to preserve harpa ony in a room the rugs whether one or more must be laid on the floor with the edges parallel with the edges of the floor not thrown on creating all sorts of ugly spots by tile the rugs and by the floor spots left around them it if one rug is used it 4 should conform as nearly as possible to the room proportions particularly when the room ts is pleasing in its proportions when the r room oom is not so the th e rug may help to make it so BO for example it if tile the room is too long for the width select a rug which will nearly cover the room in width and will leave a considerable area ot of floor exposed at either end this will tend to lo shorten the appearance of tho the room and to shorten it in length by opposition of direction it a room is to bo distinctly a period room an oriental rug can seldom be used to advantage |