If fitted carpets are to be moved, they will need to be prepared in advance.

Ditch the fitted carpets and go for striped rugs over stripped floorboards instead.

Fitted carpets were originally woven to the dimensions of the specific area they were covering.

Fitted carpets of muddy rose, muddier in the high-traffic zones.

Walls in dark, warm colours, with rich fitted carpets or traditional rugs make for a quietly splendid effect.

Three years later he moved into a new premises, complete with fitted carpets, oak panelled walls and chandeliers.

They lifted the fitted carpets, scrutinized skirting boards, examined the hems of curtains.

Carpets on top of fitted carpets.

For him, authenticity is a higher priority than fitted carpets and designer wallpapers - and the money saved can be invested in good antiques.

Afterwards brown water sprang out of several radiators, staining some newly fitted carpets and a Persian rug worth more than £2,000.

In the bedrooms were the curtains she had known all her life, and the fitted carpets remained, but beds and cupboards had been spirited away.

Phoebe had to stand on the cold and excessively clean linoleum floor, far away from the fitted carpets and deep leather chairs of the waiting area.

Thick fitted carpets with a good underlay are ideal, but if these cannot be afforded, plenty of newspaper under the carpet will help to insulate the floors.

The moment she got back, she promised herself, she would persuade Humphrey to marry her; never mind the tumble-dryer and the fitted carpets, they could come later.

It would be another two years before they could marry too, unless she could persuade him that fitted carpets and a three-piece suite could not compensate for those two lost years.

All units have fitted carpets and are generously equipped to an exceptionally high standard, including household linen, colour TVs, stereo music centres, fridge/freezers, automatic washing machines and payphones.

In that speech, Irving used the metaphor of a cruise ship named Holocaust, which Irving claimed had "...luxury wall to wall fitted carpets and a crew of thousands.

Fitted carpets, though warm, are not a good idea for the bathroom and lavatory of an elderly person who may have minor 'mishaps' and spillages which they cannot easily deal with as they advance into old age.

For that finishing touch, Class 158 trains on the TransPennine service incorporate air conditioning, fitted carpets, comfortable seats, smoother rides, toilets, on-board telephones and trolley refreshments to make your journey a real pleasure.

What the programme did was to identify the creepy-crawlies and rodents, follow the emigration as modernisation proceeded, and the immigration as those who were able (an off-putting number) returned to enjoy central heating, fitted carpets and old food packets.

If the money is available fitted carpets are a good investment, particularly those that are patterned in a mid-shade of the colour most favoured by the elderly person, as this will not show either marks or dust so much as a plain light- or dark-coloured carpet does.

She lives in a new four-storey house on a recently completed private estate, and typifies the perfect housewife of television advertising: her house has fitted carpets throughout, gleaming unmarked white paint, and every modern gadget, and it is impeccably maintained by Elizabeth, who describes herself as a housewife with very high standards.