Sentence examples for fitted carpet from inspiring English sources

Paler green fitted carpet.

The region of Mai Chau, 100km from Hanoi, is classic rural Vietnam: rice paddies stretching flat as a green fitted carpet to a ring of jagged mountains, with conical hats and water buffalo dotting the fields.

Worst is the fitted carpet in the corridors, whose architecture demands something with a less domestic quality: it is like socks worn with a ballgown and its space-killing squishiness makes my flesh creep.

It allows the century to unfold as it felt to those who lived it: the first television, watched in one's best clothes; the first fitted carpet, green nylon, soaped and scrubbed weekly by a grandmother suspicious of vacuum cleaners.

When she gets up to leave, I notice her sandals all over again, and though she is irrefutably wearing the shoes of a Scarborough landlady dressed for best, it's finest Venetian terrazzo over which she scoots, not a flowery fitted carpet.

Then there's the carpet thing: Why the hell do you feel the need to put fitted carpet on all of your rooms and staircases?

Iglesias looked oddly out of place in this pristine but anodyne new home, with its hotel-style fitted carpets and shiny wooden doors.

Formica countertops, fitted carpets and coloured bathroom fixtures were commonly included in the price.In general, a building needs to be at least 50 years old before it can be added to the National Register of Historic Places.

"That's when the girls will moan, 'Why can't we live in a normal house in town, with radiators and nice fitted carpets?' But eventually spring arrives, the kitchen door stays open and this place is just beautiful.

People lead the lives they might lead in Birmingham or anywhere in a remote village, with the same TV and fitted carpets and supermarkets – it's an identical life and they go and get the same things.

Non-return valves on drains and waterpipes, landscaped gardens, water-resistant or varnished skirting boards, tiles and rugs rather than fitted carpets and high-mounted shelves are all recommended.