Whether you’re redecorating your home or simply replacing a specific piece of furniture, it’s important to shop in accordance with your style. Your style — or design aesthetic — is the quality that ties all of your furniture together, even more than color, texture, or materials. It makes home feel like home, and tells all of your guests a little something about you.

Take a look at the following common styles and see which one sounds like you.

Traditional. Does the idea of a Victorian-style loveseat excite you? What about a hand-carved vanity and mirror? If so, you probably prefer traditional items — those pieces featuring shapes and textures that have been around since the 19th century (or earlier). Shopping for this style might sound expensive, but with antique shops and a little elbow grease, anything is possible!

Retro. Like traditional, retro style furnishings are a blast from the past, although their origin is not so distant. Retro pieces come from the 60s and 70s and might include platform beds on sale, diner-style kitchen sets, and shag carpeting. For a really cool set up, throw in a vintage record player!

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Along with tie-dye shirts and tea shades, shag carpeting was a major staple of life in the 1960s and ’70s. The soft, almost grass-like embrace of the long yarn fibers inherent in shag appealed to the barefoot free spirits of the day — during those rare moments they spent inside, anyway.

Swept under the rug (so to speak) for decades, shag carpets are hustling their way back into the mainstream, perhaps as the perfect warm-and-fuzzy antidote to an era of smartphones and video conferencing. So whether you’re a baby boomer eager to once again dig your toes into some luscious shag, or a child of the ’80s and ’90s that missed the trend altogether, you and your feet will be happy to know that shag carpeting is once again a fashionable choice for any home or apartment.

Unfurl a shag carpet in your bedroom to create the ultimate cozy sanctuary, or else arrange one couch-front in the living room for all those visitors too groovy to drive. No matter where you put it, shag carpeting will turn your flooring from dull and square to comfortable and rad.