Memory: Imperial staircase with Prussian blue carpet

One of the houses I was taken to as a child was very strange. It was a dirty farmhouse on one side, quite dingy and I walked into a kitchen with a round kitchen table. The F. Poust couple, gamblers my mom met, creepers to me even in early grade school sat at this table when I arrived. The follow up was my entry up a white Imperial Staircase with Prussian blue carpet up the stairs. There were a few large, gold leaf framed oil paintings.
They said maybe someday I would remember... Yet I never forgot.