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Parents know all about being neutral. Whether it's in a petty argument between siblings or picking the right carpet tone, neutral is usually a good route to take. While neither situation is easy, you at least have a fighting chance when it comes to your carpet.
Here are some tips for choosing the right neutral carpet tone for your home.
Size
When choosing between a darker or lighter color, factor in the size of your room. It is recommended that you use a lighter carpet in a smaller room, so that the room appears larger. In a large room, a darker color will bring a “cozier” appearance.
Furniture
By having an outstanding carpet-furniture color combination, you can turn your living space into something very special. Always try to use contrasting colors, and try out your experimentation on a color-wheel. A color-wheel will help you compare colors according to the visual light spectrum.
Lighting
Everyone enjoys natural sunlight, but it's important to know when there's enough. In a room with a lot of healthy sunlight, use a slightly darker toned carpet to help balance out the room while maintaining the bright atmosphere everyone loves.
Be Decisive
You're going with a neutral color, because neutral colors are elegant, simple, and won't detract from the rest of your home. So don't fret over the slight variations—leave that up to your consultant!
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Taking care of your carpet is extremely important if you want it to maintain its look, and feel. There are two things that make you carpet look bad. First is general wear and tear. The second is dirt, grime, food stains, etc. If you want your carpets to look great it is important to avoid both of these carpet destroyers.
To control wear and tear remember less use means longer life. How can you use your carpet less? Place rugs in high traffic areas before, they have traffic lanes. Runner rugs can save the hallway, which inevitably gets the most wear. Remove your shoes your shoes are much more abrasive than slipper or socks. Which will wear your carpet out. Shoes also often carry dirt and debris that get tracked onto the carpet. Dirt and sand will act as sand paper and wear down the carpet fibers. Leave your shoes at the door and you carpet will thank you. Vacuum, this is extremely important. When you get your carpets cleaned make sure the home has been vacuumed because it gets up about 70% of the dirt and grime. Vacuum often before the dirt can sink deep into the carpet. When you vacuum it will slow the wear because the carpet fibers are not being ground by dirt and sand.
As mentioned before taking off your shoes will cut down on the amount of dirt and other grime transferred to your carpet. Place rugs where the carpet meets hard surfaces such as tile, linoleum and hard wood floors. I have watched my kids walk though the kitchen step in some milk and continue on into the living room drying their feet on the carpet. For stains, clean it up immediately; don’t wait for it to set. As soon as you see the spill or stain, first dab up what you can with a dry rag. Then get a damp rag and clean up the stain. Then dab up the stain with a dry rag, repeat until the stain has been removed. An alternate is to use a wet dry vac and some warm water to clean up the stain. If the stain is blood or a protein type stain, use cold water instead of warm water.
The carpet cleaner should come about every six months; depending on the vigilance and upkeep you give your home.It always amazes me how much dirt grime and goop is trapped in carpet. Carpet cleaners have special formulas and chemicals to leave you carpet clean.
So keep your carpet looking great all year long !
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Inmates build new lives from the floor up: Anderson Hardwood Floors' partnership with a South Carolina prison gives prisoners a chance to gain woodworking skills.
The scene looks like any large shop that works with hardwoods. Veneer is graded and glued; planks are cut. Employees lift and load sheets of veneer into presses, push buttons and check the results.
Instead of jeans or khaki, however, these employees wear uniforms emblazoned with SCDC on the backs, short for South Carolina Department of Corrections. Barbed wire and guards surround their workplace. When the workday ends, they head for a cell instead of a home.
The Tyger River Correctional Institution of Enoree, SC, serves as both a prison and a factory. It is a medium-security institution that also houses an operation of Anderson Hardwood Floors, based in nearby Clinton, SC. Anderson's operation, with 250 employees, is the largest of seven mini-factories run within the state's prisons by corporations.
"The idea was to put inmates to work in a real-world working environment," says Tony Ellis, the state's director of prison industries. "They learn how to maintain production, job skills and quality control. They learn to be responsible for completing a job.
"You want to incarcerate them and let them pay whatever penalty is imposed on them by society, but you want to hopefully change the behavior that got them there in the first place," Ellis says.
South Carolina prisoners' participation in the federal program called PIE (Prison Industries Enhancement) is entirely voluntary; according to Ellis. The jobs are highly coveted by the inmates, he adds.
The $7- to $10-an-hour wages that Anderson pays for the inmates' work is divvied up in several ways. Some of the pay goes to the state for room and board, some helps support prisoners' families, a portion is earmarked for crime victim reparation and some of it is placed in savings accounts established for each of the prisoners participating in the program. Since 1996, Anderson has paid $7.3 million in wages.
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