short-fitted carpet

00:11 Dec 24, 2012 

Now have you added that in your question term? It could make all the difference!

At least now we have confirmation that this was not written by a native speaker of EN, as I suspected from one of your other questions!

The trouble is, the possible meaning is ambiguous: does it mean 'a fitted carpet with a short pile' — note that in EN we don't talk about a 'short' carper, but a short-pile one.

However, note that here the dark green carpet has a salmon border (not 'frame') — now that is pretty unusual for fitted carpets, other than incredibly posh establishements, which this one-croissant hotel clearly isn't!

I think in fact they are trying to say that the carpey was 'short-fitted' — i.e. didn't quite go right out to the walls. In fact, it sounds as if it wasn't a carpet at all, but more likely a rug (hence the border), and as such, we couldn't say it was 'very short-fitted' in EN, since a rug isn't a fitted carpet at all (perhaps they thought that because it was nailed down?) I think we might say 'ill-fitting rug' or something of that nature.