Everyone had been feeling that it had no value with the aged modern style appearance and the dingy shoji, fusuma and tatami-mat flooring interior.

过时的近代风格外观、污损的传统障子、推拉门，以及敷设榻榻米垫的楼层室内环境，使所有人都不再看好这栋建筑的使用价值。

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Some carpeting pros point to the femme fatale Clytemnestra of Greek legend as the first to see the value in colored flooring: She put down a darkly hued welcome mat for her husband, Agamemnon, to honor his return, whereupon he was murdered.

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