This includes a rectangular, shiny plastic floor mat, which they placed over the ornate, fine red carpet with the aim of “stopping the carpet from wearing out”. They added a pile of cardboard, which now blocks an mahogany bookshelf’s carved wooden branches. And a bulbous plastic printer now sits on what was a uncluttered pine table top, with paper boxes splayed around it.
I think this suggests that maintaining your design wasn’t practical for them. They need to put their cardboard and printer somewhere (and good luck buying an aesthetic printer). Perhaps the concern about the carpet is silly, but if it really will wear out in a short while then protecting it and maintaining some of the aesthetic value is better than not protecting it and having to buy a replacement before they’ve actually gotten value out of it.
If you could have re-arranged the room by adding space for their cardboard boxes and printer and protecting them from having to buy a new carpet, then yes they messed up. But if your solution is to get rid of the cardboard boxes and printer and to buy a new carpet in a few years, then your design isn’t appropriate for them.
To compare to Gunnar_Zarncke’s soup recipe, I wouldn’t recommend a meatball soup to a vegetarian, but if I can recommend a soup that can either use meatballs or spicey vegetables, then that’s a good recommendation for everyone.
I think this suggests that maintaining your design wasn’t practical for them. They need to put their cardboard and printer somewhere (and good luck buying an aesthetic printer). Perhaps the concern about the carpet is silly, but if it really will wear out in a short while then protecting it and maintaining some of the aesthetic value is better than not protecting it and having to buy a replacement before they’ve actually gotten value out of it.
If you could have re-arranged the room by adding space for their cardboard boxes and printer and protecting them from having to buy a new carpet, then yes they messed up. But if your solution is to get rid of the cardboard boxes and printer and to buy a new carpet in a few years, then your design isn’t appropriate for them.
To compare to Gunnar_Zarncke’s soup recipe, I wouldn’t recommend a meatball soup to a vegetarian, but if I can recommend a soup that can either use meatballs or spicey vegetables, then that’s a good recommendation for everyone.