Scatter bedroom rugs

Their size should be in relation to the size of the room, and the spaces they are used in. Place them beside beds and in front of bureaus or dressing tables. They should be related to furniture groupings and never laid eater-cornered.

Avoid dark colors on bedroom floors because every little par­ticle of lint from beds and clothing is high-lighted against them. Once we had a very grand bedroom with a deep blue wall-to-wall carpet of fascinating texture—two levels of looped pile.

It was beautiful—for about fifteen minutes just after it had been vacuumed.