We just moved and now have much less carpet, which is great for keeping the
pet hair under control but sucks for our senior dog that dreads sliding around
on our hard surface floors. Our long hallway is especially treacherous so we needed a runner. I was prepared to order something from online but we ran into two matching thick Wool Turkish rugs at our Goodwill, together they retail for over $300 but our cost was just $14.99 (retails for $209) for the 2' 6" X 12' runner ( I know... twelve feet long!)
and $6.99 (retails for $100) for the 2' 6" X 4' area rug. I did not unwrap them in the store so I was prepared to have to clean them of any number of mystery spills and foot traffic, however, they were both pristine when we untapped and rolled them out on the floor.
(see photo below of the runner)