If anyone is considering installing carpet

[tangentgirl]

I appreciate that fact that the original owners kept our hardwood floors safely covered with carpet for 50 years. Of course, I wasn't the one who had to rip it all out - someone did that before we bought the place.

I could never cover them up again, hard wood is too pretty. I look at the floors and can't imagine why they would have in the first place.

Then again, they covered the patio with astroturf, so there you go.