So I just now unrolled the new area rug for my living room that arrived yesterday. It’s a mid century modern design to go with the mid century modern sofa and chair I bought to replace the old and dilapidated ones I inherited after I retired. My bitter Baptist grandmother chose most of the furniture in the apartments I grew up in but every now and then mom got something in that I really liked and it wasn’t until years after she passed away that I finally came to understand what that style she liked was. If I could I’d do the entire house in this style but I don’t have that kind of money, and probably my house was always destined to be random this and that like my mind. But I really Really like this style. Most likely that’s because it was everywhere when I was a boy in the 1950s and 60s. I think mom fell in love with it too, but she wasn’t in charge of the living space. 

This is my house however, and I am.

When I bought it the house had burgundy and pink wall to wall carpet in all the major rooms, including the basement man cave. I didn’t much like those colors but I figured I’d just leave it until I could figure out what I wanted to replace it with. 23 years later I’m on retirement income and if I had my druthers I’d take it all up and have the nice wood floor under it (I’ve seen what it looks like in my neighbor’s houses) refinished. But then I’d have to take up all the furniture and put it somewhere. Plus endure the fumes.

And I’d really like to replace that not optimal tile floor in the kitchen with a linoleum one in a 1950s pattern, which I think would go nicely with my 50s chrome table and chairs. But then I would Have to replace the boilerplate “country kitchen” cabinets that came with the house. I think maybe I could get away with just replacing the doors though.

So anyway, I decided to look at area rugs and I found this one at a very affordable clearance price. I’m really liking what it’s doing for the living room.

And now of course, I’m afraid to walk across it in my shoes.