Buying carpets

If your pocketbook is lean buy one good thing at a time. Make a long-range plan and furnish bit by bit as you can afford it. In the end you will have a home to be proud of, not a houseful of things fit only for the junkman in a few short years.

Don't buy cheap versions of pretentious things if your means are limited.

Though a superb Oriental or French rug may be your dream, it is in far better taste and infinitely more sensible to compromise with a well-designed machine-made Axminster or a good plain carpet than with a sleazy second-rate handmade piece.