Have you got fitted carpets? We’ve got fitted carpets.” Along with geometric wallpaper and paying for your motor outright, fitted carpets were a symbol of social status in 1970s suburbia, as ...

SIR – It hardly matters where the television is put in the room (Letters, March 15); it will still look horrible. Even when a television was a status symbol, the instinct was to put it in a cabinet.

ALTHOUGH REGULAR VACUUMING CAN remove most of the noticeable soil from your carpet, nasties such as pollen, bacteria and dust mites will remain, invisible to the naked eye. Deep-down dirt will wear at ...

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With a high pile, a bold pattern or a bright colour, wall-to-wall carpets are back, as we choose luxury and warmth over rustic floorboards The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When ...