HAVERHILL, Mass. — Budget dramas are engulfing cities everywhere, but this may be the only one in the country where the most contentious spending proposal involves a rug. The brown wall-to-wall ...

Both floors and ceilings often are referred to as the fifth wall. But what’s on the floor has more gravitas in the design scheme. Rugs can warm and complete a space. They can draw the eye as a focal ...

The stereotype about how college students furnish their dorm rooms is one of threadbare rugs, broken-down appliances and sofas — with a “free” sign attached — grabbed from the side of the road. The ...

Rugs are by no means a new thing. Ask any interior designer — or historian. One of the oldest rugs, called the Pazyryk carpet, ever discovered surfaced in 1949, and now resides in the Hermitage Museum ...

Does your late-summer, drought-stricken lawn look like a brown threadbare rug, while Barry over at No. 756 is boasting a lush emerald carpet begging for bare feet? You might want to call the World ...