> Like clothes, carpets will also move in and out of fashion. With the introduction of easy-to-clean linoleum floors and shiny wooden panels in the 1980s, the d

> Like clothes, carpets will also move in and out of fashion. With the introduction of easy-to-clean linoleum floors and shiny wooden panels in the 1980s, the decline of the carpet industry began. By the Nineties, the former competitors Templeton and Stoddard were sold to a Dutch company and outsourced, and by 2009 they were liquidated in the lost search for a new owner. Carpets were no longer symbols of a prosperous middle class but a declining symbol of an outdated past. I personally prefer the cheap linoleum over expensive carpet or wood. I can sweep it, vacuum it, mop it. Why spend more money on wall to wall carpets? You can get a small area rug or one of those standing mats where you need it.