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Show Page 14—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Tuesday, January 1, 1980 Decorating Magic With Carpet Tiles Is there a room somewhere in your background for an interesting “insert” homethat needs rejuvenation’ Do you of contrasting carpet square colors and have an urge to try your hand at textures. The effect is one of a custom area rug used to accent the Blass-top creative decorating? Consider carpet squares. They're in- coffee tabie. expensive, fun to work with and adap In place of standard sofas, the room table to hundredsof interesting design features a simple do-it-yourself banquette seating arrangement treatments. Squares are no different fromor- Upholstered cushions have been placed dinary carpet except that they comein on a raised plywood platform, and the tile form. You buy only the quantity wholeunit given a custom look runnyou need and save money by doing the ing squares up the exposed surfaces installation yourself. National chains These are just a few ofthe highlyincarrythe latest styles and offer expert dividual patterns which are possible installation advice. But the real fun with carpet squares. Think of checkerboards, stripes, or the currently popcomes in the planning. If you let your imagination soar, you ular bordered carpet treatments that can create all kinds of interesting could work in your home. Plan your decorative effects with squares. Try design on graph paper first, then go toa ixng different colors and texturesfor loca! store, pick your colors, and cai your own custom design underfoot. You a whole roomful of decorating excitecan even use carpet squares on fur- ment homein the backseatof your car niture to give it an expensive built-in Aside from their visual impact, carpet squares wear well and are as look. Toillustrate, interior designers came easyas 1-2-3 to install. Each square has up with two extraordinary rooms a pull-back protective paper backing loaded with ideasthatare easily and in- which, when removed, allows you to expensively duplicated. Both settings place and press the carpet into posifeature easy-to-build platform fur tion, niture rade to look expensive through There's no messy adhesive to bother with, and, if you work with fullpieces, the use of squares . In the bedroom, rowsof contrasting there is practically no waste. carpet squares form a bold geometric To safely secure squares to vertical design that’s carried up the wall by surfaces, double-faced carpet tape is Bate of sions le colors. A recommended. Any fold-overportion is simple %4"" jatform serves as additionally anchored by mattress or thebase forakingspe mattress — and cushion weight. Where a cornerof two when squares are applied to the plat- vertical appliations corrus, simply cut form surface, the bed becomesa stunn- away a %” strip of foam backing from ag areca elementof the room. one of the adjoning edges for a smooth ‘ou don’t even need a headboard! fit.HI The supergraphic onthe wall ‘frames’ In home decorating circles, carpet the sleeping area and ties in pattern- squares are creating a lot of excitewise with the surrounding carpet ment. Since most of us can't afford An equally clever scheme is sug- professional help, squares offer an gested in the living room treatment economical way to express our own Here a rich chocolate brown carpet creative tastes. (formed entirely of squares) serves as (ABOVE) THIS living room i the versatility of carpet squares as a low-cost but effective decorating medium. Aninsert of contrasting squares simulates an area rug in the conversation grouping. 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