Fashion: rugs

Fashion changes in architecture and interior furnishings are not as frequent or as abrupt as they are in clothes, but they do occur often enough so that you must analyze them seriously before you make the major investments in your home.

You will probably see three or four complete furnishing fash­ion cycles in your lifetime, as well as dozens of minor fads and fancies.

If your mother or grandmother was. married about the turn of the century and had a fashionable house, it was probably resplendent with shining brass beds, Morris chairs and golden oak.

Perhaps your first bedroom set when you were a little girl was bird's-eye maple