Choosing and buying carpets

Linings are essential if you expect your floorcoverings to wear long and well. They also make your rugs and carpets feel more luxuriously deep, soft and quiet under foot.

Linings under wall-to-wall carpet should be trimmed an inch and a half to two inches from the wall, so that the carpet will fit snugly against the baseboard or under the quarter round, and they should extend to within an inch and a half of each edge of any rug.

For small pieces the best lining is a nonskid type, which helps to keep the rug from wrinkling and slipping.