We finally, finally got new carpet yesterday! When we moved into our
house, there was a powder blue carpet that wound from the entry way,
through the living room, up the stairs, and into both bedrooms. It was a
outdated, but that wasn't the big problem. It had a faint smell of dog
pee (better than cat pee!). It also had numerous stains and large bleach
stains in places.
We removed it entirely from the downstairs
when we put in our laminate wood floors. Of course, it had to be
replaced everywhere else, but we kept putting it off. What's the point
in getting new carpet when we were about to have a baby? Babies spit up
and poop everywhere! So we waited. And waited.
I cleaned the
carpet a number of times with a carpet cleaner. It helped with the
smell, but, on rainy days, you could get a whiff in the air. It was so
unsightly that we almost never had anyone go upstairs.
Now that
we're planning on putting our home on the market, we couldn't put it off
any more. Carpet was more expensive than we'd thought, but it had to be
done. We went with the second estimate (Carpet Exchange). They did a really good job with
the install, and I love the new carpet. I only wish we'd done it
a little sooner so we could have lived in the house long enough to get
some use out of it!
Here's a photo of our room looking very spiffy with the new carpeting. There's something else new in our bedroom, too. My friends Aminta and Olivia went with me to
Whimsy Paint & Sip yesterday with some vouchers from Living Social. We had a blast, and I got a new piece of artwork for the house!
My painting:
