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04:21:2002 Entry: "Rug"
Rug
Thank you, Dargie!
Today we are going to install a nice new rug in part of our living room and remove the old, torn one that is probably 80 years old or so (unless I am a very horrible judge of rug patterns and styles throughout the years, this is not an exaggeration). I love that old one, but it's seen better days. Or decades. Actually, if I had it my way, I'd have no rug and just hardwood floors, but that is only possible on the other half of the living room, the original living room area. The newer half used to be a front porch until previous owners closed it in sometime in the middle of the last century. They didn't use hardwood flooring on the new part, just plywood. From what we can gather, they took the nice old fashioned maroon foliage-patterned rug that was on the original hardwood half, and covered up the new half with the rug, obscuring the fact that there was no hardwood floor underneath that area for all the successive owners. Then some time later, they carpeted the entire living room with a lovely (cough) mid-century green carpet. Then a few decades after that, someone put down another rug or carpet (can't remember which) over that, this time in a neutral yucky beige. And those were the first things we tore up when we moved into the house. I bet the people who lived here before we did didn't even know that the front part of the living room was only plywood flooring. We were delighted to find the original maroon foliage carpet as well as hardwood floors on the original part, but not so thrilled to find the plywood. I'm going to miss the old rug; it reminded me of the rug in my grandmother's house. But it really is torn to bits.
4 Comments
You're very welcome, Ann, and thank you! Love your stuff.
Posted by dargie @ 03/09/2002 04:04 PM CST
""a lovely (cough) mid-century green carpet"" lmao...Hey Ann, i think they same person who made that carpet certainly designed the carpets we have had in several places we've lived....
and i am thanking the gods we have hardwood floors now...
man...80 yrs old carpet...damn!
i bet it will look nice though when you're done!
Posted by Lori @ 03/10/2002 11:43 AM CST
So how do you like the new rug? :o)
Posted by Maria @ 03/11/2002 06:36 AM CST
It's great, and the pets love it too! So much that Plato christened it with a bunch of doggie chew bone crumbs as soon as we rolled it out.
Posted by Ann @ 03/11/2002 09:00 AM CST