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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 21907, member: 57&quot;]Avocado green????&nbsp; In houses????</p><p><br /></p><p>First house DH and I bought was decorated entirely in avocado green carpet (which covered up beautiful oak hardwood floors).&nbsp; Wood paneling in the large den was painted avocado green to go with the carpet.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I always wondered how the lady of the house (who had been an airline stewardess and always looked like she just stepped out on a fashion runway) could stand that avocado green carpet in the entire house.</p><p><br /></p><p>Found out from the neighbors a few years after we moved there (and after we ripped up all that avocado green carpet) that she suffered from agoraphobia (she wouldn&#039;t/couldn&#039;t even go out in the front yard to see her very young daughter get on or off the school bus).</p><p><br /></p><p>DH and I decided that the horrible green carpet was her &quot;substitute&quot; for the &quot;green&quot; tree-shrub-flower-grass-filled world outside of her house.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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