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Lending impetus to the exposed floor trend, experts point out, is the growing conviction among honremakers that nioveable rugs offer important advantages: is our executive vice-president and an active member of the sales staff.

-They can be shifted readily to distribute wear.

-They can be picked up easily and sent out for professional cleaning.

-At party time in the honre, rugs can be rernoved in a jiffy for dancing. Gleaming hardwood floors provide a perfect dance surface.

-Good quality rugs can be replaced when worn at substantially less cost than complete covering of similar quality.

-When the family moves to another home, rugs generally can be used in the nerv house, whereas the use or disposition of fixed covering in such instances often presents a problem.

Various hardwoods are employed in the exposed floor arrangement. Most extensively used is oak, a traditional favorite for fine foors. Also popular are hard maple, beech, birc,h and pecan. Other cxquisite species often chosen include walnut, cherry, ash, hickory and teak. All are noted for lifetime service, ease of upkeep, foot comfort, insulating quality, and resistance to wear arrd to denting.

Most persons prefer the strip style of hardwood, which comes in a choice of widths front ll to 3l inches. Versatile from a decorative standpoint, it is at home with any style of architecture and harmonizes with any furnishings. Usually it is installed in uniform widths. But especially interesting floors can be formed throush use of mixed widths.

The plank style, which strikes a note of charnring informality, is particularly appropriate for colonial and ranch style homes. Generally it is laid in random widths. A typical plank floor may be composed of pieces 3, 5 and 7 inches wide, laid alternately. Widths from 3 to 9 inches are available.

Unit-block flooring, a modern form of conventional parquetry, is more formal in character. It is produced in squares and rectangles of several dimensions. A popular choice, for example, is the 9 i 9inch size. The blocks can be laid in countless fascinating designs.

Before his 7 years at Hobbs \Wall, Bill spent another 7 years with well-known wholesale, retail and plant operations as well as Oregon's state department of forestry.

He's one of several experienced Hobbs \Vall lumber specialists good men to call when you're after the right grades at the right prices in redwood, fir, pine and other sPecies.

\Why not put them to work for you next time you need a t. & t. or carload shipment?