Recent Oregon State University graduate Alexandra Holmes, who was flying home to England on Jan. 6, 2015, wondered why PDX didn't just stick with the old design loved by so many travelers. Good point.

Jeffrey Bale received his degree in landscape architecture from the University of Oregon back in 1981. ... Bale's Persian Rug design in a tiny Northwest Portland garden. OPB.

ANSWER: I like a rug to be far enough beneath the bed that your feet touch the rug rather than the floor. Half of the rug design should extend beyond the foot of the bed.