Interior Decorating Tip #34
If you want to give a Living Room or Family Room a luxurious feel, you could pop for an Oriental rug costing $2,000, $5,000 ” or more.
Or . . . you could spend $100 or so to get an especially thick carpet pad to put under a more modest rug ” and achieve something very similar.
P.S.: the reverse is also true, i.e., a cheap carpet pad (or none, like I’ve seen in several finished basements lately) makes an expensive rug or carpet seem cheap.
