The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-18
SAN FRANCISCO STOCK SALES.
SAN FRANCISCO. January 16, 1892.
Hardwood Floors and Wood Carpets.


The most healthful flooring is the hard
wood, or its humber relations, the painted
or stained floors. They do not get full of
dust and moths, and are readily cleaned.
They remove the heaviest load from the
semi-annual housekeeping, while after
contagious illness they do not need special
fumigating. They are, on the other hand,
expensive from their own cost, and from
the rugs they require to remove the bare
ness and to reduce the household clatter.
A house with wood floors throughout is
noisy place where the family is of any
size. Hard floors are particularly fitted
for dining-room, sleeping rooms, the Ii
brary and MUSHROOMS; but halls, stairs
and slttlng-room are more comfortable
carpeted. In the drawing-room a rich
effect is more cheaply attained with carpet
than with rugs, and the room being less
used its care is less burdensome.
Hardwood floors are of maple, oak, or
Georgia pine, and should be tightly laid
and "blind-nailed." The expense varies
with locality. Wood carpeting, or
| American parquetry, is a recent and sue
good as permanent hard wood floor,
but more easily applied. The wood,
either walnut, oak, cherry, or any two
| alternately, is one-quarter Of an inch
thick and in narrow strips of blocks,
which are glued to cloth back. The
straight carpeting comes 20, % and &c
inches in width, and will roll up like oil
| cloth, weighing seven pounds TO the
yard. Plain borders are made in 81, 5
and 6-inch widths, and corners, center
| pieces and strips to form mitre lines come
| in the various woods. Such carpeting
costs from 81 so to SIS per square yard,
that for the latter price being designed
intricately with center pieces and elab-
crate borders in oak, cherry, mahogany,
| rocayrno6 onH
prices are for the goods uncut and meas
ured before laying, the laying and finish
ing being separate expenses. Only a
| carpenter or cabinet-maker can lay these
carpets, full directions being given by
the city firms that supply them. But
carpenters in the country have found
! trouble in giving the carpet it's proper
finish, and explicit directions should be
secured with the goods. The finish is
| generally done in shellac, but hard oil or
-waxed finish is sometimes preferred.
A carpet of this kind, including the lay
| ing and finishing, will cost about the
same as a body Brussels carpet of the
| same size, and will last a lifetime. It can
be laid over an ordinary floor, and being
| so thin, doors and thresholds do not have
to be cut down. To order it, make a
drawing of the shape of the room, show
ing where are all the windows, doors
| projections, and recesses, and carefully
measuring and indicating the spaces.
Some floors are too poorly laid to be
! painted or stained, and the cost of hard
| wood or wood-carpeting must be avoided
In such case, "kidderminster,' heavy
ingram, is an excellent and warm cover
ing. 1t is yard wide, alike on both
sides, comes in all plain colors, and costs
| eighty cents yard. 1t makes an effect
i've background for rugs, but looks well
when used alone.-Harper's Bazaar.