wall-to-wall carpeting

For some odd reason, the builder installed wall-to-wall carpeting in a sunroom at the rear of the house.

The couple enlarged the kitchen, added a parking spot behind the house and removed some wall-to-wall carpeting, but their biggest effect was the addition of wallpaper in nearly every room.

With its title derived from the nursery rhyme of the same name, it builds tension by mixing elements of childhood such as saccharine cartoons played on a tube television and heaps of colorful Legos strewn about wall-to-wall carpeting with unexplainable events that would be confusing at any age.

Scroll through the discussion boards of the home and interior design website Houzz and you’ll uncover a piercing truth: Relationships and renovations clash like wall-to-wall carpeting and avocado kitchen tile.

Naranjo has ripped out the wall-to-wall carpeting throughout the house to expose the original hardwood floors, and she and her husband intend to change the Spanish tile roof to something more like cedar shake.