Choose your carpets

Whether it is formal or informal, the rooms in a big house are usually spacious and isolated enough so it is more interesting to use a variety of floorcoverings.

Acres of the same pattern or color are monotonous in the extreme. But in the small house it is often wise to use the same carpet in two or three adjoining rooms or throughout one floor, because an illusion of spaciousness, rest-fulness and harmony results without there being too much of it to become tiresome.

The same general principles apply to floorcoverings for apart­ments or flats, but apartment dwellers are usually less perma­nently settled than home owners, so choose things which will fit easily into new surroundings.

Lokweave carpet is especially practical for you because it can be cut and put together again to fit rooms of different size and shape. Rugs, too, are a more sensible buy than a regular wall-to-wall carpet.

The exterior architecture of the apartment building is of no great importance, though the size, ornamental detail and exposure of your own rooms of course must be considered.