Deep cleaning may bring back carpet's beauty

There may be more life in old carpeting than you suspect -whether you've had it for years or inherited it from the previousowner when you bought a house.

"Don't count carpet that is down as necessarily out," saysShannon Rench Tyler of Racine Industries, which makes a carpetdry-cleaning system called Host. She advises trying to restorecarpet by deep cleaning.

"Make cleaning the carpet the first step before moving into anew home," she says. "If you start by bringing out the carpet's truecolor, that can set up the color scheme for wall finishes andfurnishings."

Once you've moved in, she advises, concentrate on high-trafficareas and spills, spot-cleaning …