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Show ——— Take Your Cues from Carpeting @ Within a short span of time, carpeting has gone through revolutionary changes. Oncelimited to a few floral and dark colors, carpets now are blazing with color, bursting out in new tex. tures and brilliant designs. What kind to choose? Wall-tc-wall carpeting can make a small room look larger or unify adjacent rooms. Area rugs work their wonder in large roomsthat need defining; in roomswith floors too lovely to cover up; in temporary residences where you don’t want the permanency of tacked-down carpeting. Or you maywantto use both wall-to-wall and an area rug in a heady combination. Carpeting, in fact, can be the catalyst that sparks the scheme of an entire room or be the perfect warming touch that completes your room setting. Need color? Need pattern? Take a cue from theinteriors shown here. . . DEFINE AN AREA Show off a dining alcove with the addition of a brilliantly patterned area rug, such as this one designed by Dorothy Liebes. The advantage of area rugs, because they comein all sizes, is that they can work magic if you need to inject a splash of color or want pattern in small dosage. This artful area rug was placed on a contrastingfield of shag lime carpeting. The small dining setting, which was designed byPat Plexico from the floor up, was planned for decorative impactaswell as function by selecting a scaled-down buffet cabinet with a laminated surface, an ovaltable that opens up to seat six, and a side table with a pull- out shelf (off the living room) that can be called into service for entertaining. Carpeting, area rug by Bigelow; furniture by Hickory Mfg; art prints by Syroco; lampby Tyndale. < CARPETING THAT CLIMBS THE WALL Whenyou lay down carpeting, why stop at the floor? A relatively new decoratingidea is te continue up the wall. In this room self-sticking 12-inch-square shag Carpettiles were used. They are quickto install, ea5y to pick up for moving, and will save on installation Cost. The latex foam backing provides deep comfort underfoot. And, if you cover an entire wall, it cuts down on noise between rooms. This contemporary living room derives its snappy color schemefrom the all-vinyl foil plaid wall covering, which is nontarnishable, washable. Aneffective way to add a shelf is to Suspend one from the ceiling on metal chains, a shown, sprayed vivid green. The chains, available at hardware stores, are hung by hooksfrom the ceiling. Carpet tiles by Ozite; furniture by Selig; hassocks by Crawford Mfg; wall covering by Lloyd; framed mirrors by the Cypress Tree. 2 « Family Weekly, September 26, 1971 |