One who followed the tip said 'the floor was multicolored but looked great and was all done for free because my dad had gone round the carpet shops and asked for any they were throwing out.

一位采用了这个做法的人说：“地板看上去花花绿绿，但效果很好，并且不要钱。因为我爸爸走遍了卖地毯的商店，把他们不要的材料都拿了回来。”

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Ford dealers will remove the carpet padding and replace the left-side console trim panel free of charge, the NHTSA said.

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Under Mehdi, MSN responded to AOL's "carpet bombing"--mailing out millions of discs offering free trials--by landing prime real estate at the retail level.

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The BBC and others noted, for example, when a flat region was hidden under a "carpet", when the carpet hid a 3D object, and when the carpet was dispensed with and a 3D object was hidden in "free space".

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