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My brother and I are moving into an apartment and the Living Room, Dining Room and kitchen are all in one room. There is a hideous green carpet that is covering the floors, the Living room is 13.1×12.7 and the Dining Room is 13.8×10.6 and the kitchen is in the Dining Room but doesn’t take up much space. We were wanting to know what would be the optimum color to cover up this green carpet? The walls are white and have been re-painted time and time again. We plan on putting up posters, pictures, and paintings but aren’t quite sure what our theme is going to be. We want it to be simple yet, sophisticated. We want it to have a bachelor theme but at a low cost. Black and silver is ideal but seeing as how this is our first apt. we aren’t expecting much. We want people when they walk through our door to feel at ease and not have the green put them off! =P Thanks!
This is where the layout is. Go to this website http://otahkian.com/ and then find Village Floor Layout, (3rd from the top on the left). It will then be displayed in your browser. Hope this helps!

I can rarely find anything longer than 12′. I am worried about doing more than one but also worried how bad a long single would look. It is glossy hardwood and they keep getting smudgy footprints from even the slightest moist feet. (kids leaving hall bath from a bath) Also I have so much hardwood everywhere I need to break it up. Also certain guests are a pain about making them remove shoes. I need ideas where to shop, JCP had everything last month but now I want to order and they no longer carry the long sizes. Another thing is I wanted the hall runner to match whatever I put in Living room which needs to be big also 11 X 14 would be ok. I can’t find these sizes of rugs affordable, except JCP but they have no big ones. I ‘d like to spend under 1500 plus include a 8 x 10 for the dining room (not to match).

My husband and I moved into a rental home 15 months ago. At the time that we moved in, the landlords had just had new carpet installed – white berber carpet, very low end looking and too rough for my daughter to crawl on.
They warned us that the carpet installers had warned them that that style of carpet is terrible about stains. In the time we’ve lived here, we’ve already had it professionally cleaned once, at our expense, becuase it does soak up everything – I cannot walk barefoot in the house without it making my feet dirty.
Considering that this is a rental unit, I feel that it was poor judgement of them to put in a style and color of carpet so easily stained, and am wondering basically how long we have to live here before they can no longer keep our secruity deposit to buy new carpet. The new carpet was just the living room, dining room and hall, allbedrooms have very old carpet. We were not instructed to not wear shoes inside, and the stains are just from walking around.

So I have a HUGE problem. A few weeks ago this girl I used to go to school with told me her dog had Pom-Chi’s to give away and my cousin wanted one. We went to see them and they weren’t what she wanted, but I felt horribly bad for them. They had flees all over them and were horribly skinny. I got one in order to clean it up and then find it a good home. If took me a few weeks to get it a good home, but as a price my cats (two persians) and dogs (a lab and a Shih Tzu) now have flees. I have done everything I can think of! Washed all of them in dawn dish soap, cleaned every piece of surface in the house. I don’t understand why the Pom-chi brought them in. I didn’t let him in the house until he had been cleaned about 3 times in flee medicine. It seems like everything I do, the flees come back. In our house, none of the animals go upstairs. It is off limits. The downstairs consists of a kitchen, living room, dining room, hallway, bathroom, laundryroom, garage, and two bedrooms. They all have hardwood floors except for the two bedroooms. All of the couches in our living room have blankets covers on them (which I cleaned) and it has a huge rug in the floor. There are rugs in kitchen and the bathroom. Also of course in the bed rooms, there are blankets, clothes, and stuffed animals ect. I am not sure what else I can do. I have cleaned all of these rooms, washed the cats and dogs many times. It is driving me crazy! I am getting ready to higher a maid and a exterminater then taking them all to the groomers for flee baths. I would like an easier way… if anyone has anything please please please help! I am desperate.
Ok, I am well aware of the oil thing, I dont need to be critisized. I have washed them 3 times over the past 2 months… not to mention medicine on there necks every month. The only thing i do constantly is clean the house and rugs and fabric surfaces at least 5 times a week.

I adopted my mini dachshund from a rescue 2 months ago. The vet says she’s approx. a year old. We’re having a very hard time house-training her. I read that dachshunds can be difficult to house-train. She’s very smart, and learns the tricks I teach her incredibly fast, but we can’t seem to grasp house-training. At first she had only a few accidents, and was at least going on the paper we left down for her. Now she’s not going on the paper at all. I have been cleaning her favorite spot with a pet cleaner I bought at the pet store so she won’t detect it and go there again, but it doesn’t seem to deter her. When my husband and I are at work, we have the stairs blocked, and she can go anywhere downstairs (living room, kitchen, and dining room. The dining room is her favorite spot and the only one that has a rug [a small area rug under the table]). We tried a crate at first but our neighbors said she barked and howled from the time we left until we came home. I don’t want her to be distressed, but I also don’t want to come home to a mess. Any suggestions?

I am constantly reapplying round sticky chair pads to my dining room chairs. The don’t stick on because they rub off on the rug, but I need them for the back legs that hit the oak floor. I have yet to find anything that works. Does anyone out there have a suggestion? I can’t afford to buy a bigger rug.

We have two cats, Eva and Cookie. Cookie is a very lazy laid back cat and usually doesn’t get into trouble. Eva, on the other hand is very active and gets into everything, and lately it’s been getting worse. She has started to scratch the rug in our dining room, and whenever we see her doing this, we either squirt her with water, or make a loud noise to try and deter her from scratching it. The funny thing is, there are two scratching posts in the dining room and they are right behind her when she is scratching the rug! She never scratched it before until like a month or two ago.

Also, last night I caught her in the dishwasher, LOL, and on the kitchen table, which she knows shes not supposed to be on, so as soon as I looked at her she jumped off, like she does everytime, but she still does it.

Why is she suddenly behaving more mischievously?

She doesn’t have any health problems or anything…

Which would be best colour of wall paint to comliment green leather furniture in a room that doesn’t get much light, has cream flooring, curtains and a cream marble fireplace? There is a rust/red Persian rug in front of the fireplace and the room adjoins dining and kitchen area. Kitchen has more light and cream cupboards and preparation island. Dining room has a glass door leading to garden, so also bright with Danish Pine hand carved furniture, honey coloured. I just feel that the room needs brightening and advice on adding the correct colour of cushions would also be much appreciated.Throws are out, as they tend to slip from leather. The other furniture in the room consists of the same shade of above mentioned Danish pine with bookcase,glass cabinet and matching tables either side of sofa. Lighting is soft with use of lamps dotted around, but not overhead lighting, as too hostile.
Hope this basic mental picture will help you to help me! Thanks in anticipation of a response.

I have very light colored tan carpeting throughout my house with contemporary decor. The color scheme reads more towards reds/browns/orange, and the furniture style is mainly espresso and light tan pieces with contemporary lines. The walls in my combined living room and dining room are a very light silver/gray with a half accent wall in bright red below the chair rail in the dining nook. The living room is spacious but I feel it really needs some more pop in color other than just the painting we have on the large wall. I’ve found this area rug that I really like and I think it would look good, but I have to ask, is it weird or awkward to have an area rug in a carpeted living room? I just can’t help but feel like I need to cover up the massive amounts of neutral carpet.

Here’s the rug, in case it helps in visualizing with the rest of the description above.

http://www.homedepot.com/Multi/Flooring-Area-Rugs-Mats-Area-Rugs-Contemporary/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xgyZb8pfZ1z141n1Z1z13m21/R-100628139/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

Bringing home a beautiful new dining room rug tomorrow. How can I keep my husband’s cats (I’m a dog person, myself) from either sharpening their claws on it, urinating on it and/or pulling out the fringe? They’ve done all three before. The urination is infrequent, thank god; but this is an oriental with a white/cream background. One accident is too many. The claw sharpening goes on constantly. Hubby won’t keep them properly clipped, and I’m allergic … I’ll sneeze the rest of the day if I do it. One of the pair (these cats are neutered 6 year old brothers) is a particular freak for the fringe.

Is there a product out there that won’t harm the rug, cats or kids in the house, but will just keep the kitties the hell away from it?

Thanks!
oh, and they’re prize pukers too.

is there no hope for my rug? (or, for that matter, no hope for my cats either?)
tjb: good point about buying the rug in the first place. i’ve inherited it. we’re closing out my mom’s house tomorrow.

I just got a phone call that a visitor who was in my home yesterday has lice. She was here for a few hours and was in the living room, dining room, kitchen, and office. I have checked my husband’s head and my own. We have no sign of anything. I am very sure I have not gotten anything because I had a hair appointment this morning for color and a cut. If something was there, I am sure my hairdresser would have seen it. I also took all slipcovers and tablecloths off and washed them in hot water. We vaccumed all areas, including the furniture where she had been. I washed the hand towels and rugs from the bathroom that guests use when they are here. I also got all rugs, throw pillows, and our pet beds and bagged them up. I know I should keep things bagged for at least two weeks. Have I done enough to eradicate the lice if they were here? The very thought of it has me itching like crazy. Purely psychological, I am sure. Should I do anything else?
Serious answers only please. Anyone who has any common sense understands that lice actually thrive on clean hair. Getting them is not a sign that you are unclean.

My dining room is on carpet, and the chairs chew up the carpet pretty bad, so we have a rug underneath. But it bunches up a lot. Should we use a carpet mat underneath the rug? Or will that not fix the problem? Or, is it possible to buy a HUGE vinyl mat (like you have under a computer desk) for a dining room set? I can’t find one anywhere. Please help, my carpet is near death.

I have a living/dining room condo. The entire condo has a beige rug throughout except the hallway, kitchen and bathroom. Can I use an area rug on top of a rug? And can I use it in a living/dining room combo? If so, should I use it for the dining room or living room. I need some advice.

My dining room has a section/strip of badly scratched hard wood flooring thanks to a horrible contractor who dragged all our new kitchen appliances over the floor surface. Would it be possible to swap the damaged panels with better ones which are currently in the middle of the floor? I will be covering the area with a nice oriental rug so the condition of the floor in the center of the room does not matter as much.
The part that is currently damaged will still be visible–it will not be covered by the rug.