New carpet

Two guys came in this morning to fit a new carpet in the bedroom. WotN, aka Adèle the famous writer, is oohing and aahing about how soft it is under foot. You sink in, which didn't happen with the old carpet, of poorer quality to begin with and trodden down - a bit like John Pilger's silenced millions - by years and years of... feet. But my worry is that the room is now smaller, with the distance between carpet and ceiling that much shorter.