I remember the beautiful hardwood floors and area rugs of my early childhood in the late 1940s and early 1950s...and how eager my grandmother and my mother were to throw out the rugs and cover the hardwood with carpet when it became all the rage in the mid-1950s.
It's interesting how home fashions cycle in and out. Now we retro restorers are pulling up carpet hoping to find hardwood underneath and going back to area rugs. I was fortunate to find the original oak flooring in my home, and it was in excellent condition.
