Just because you don't like something doesn't make it worthless. Rugs make my house a home. They really tie the rooms together. Your Dark Side of the Moon flag curtain makes your home look like a flop house.

Soft, protect your floors, reduce noise echo, soften talking, make it comfortable to sit on, reduce noise transfer to other floors of your home, trap dust instead of letting it float around, cushion your bare feet so you don’t have to wear shoes in the house, help tie your room together and make it feel like a home instead of a college dorm or hospital room. Come on, use your imagination.

Rugs save wood floors from scratching, an expensive thing to fix.

You don’t really need curtains, either.

I’m personally light-sensitive, so covering the windows is imperative if I want to avoid pain. Curtains also mean having privacy inside one’s own home, which isn’t a strange thing to want.

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