So when we first moved in, we discovered that those that sold us our house were known to be less than honest...it was basically par for the course that on our official move in walk through we suddenly realized the state of the carpeting demonstrated by three relatively large holes in the upstairs and the downstairs. NOW Mark and I are relatively aware people and typically notice these things, however! we were thwarted in our efforts as the aforementioned holes had been hidden. Under plants.
Yup. Plants.
For future house-shopping, we will be lifting all floor plants, so beware.
Anyways, we knew we needed new carpeting. Like before we moved in. But the costs of home ownership are hefty and we weren't quite ready for that commitment.
Fast forward two years and add a small child whose head basically lives in the floor. Now the knowledge that our carpet was old turned in to we NEED new carpet. Or K will be forever inhaling the dust spores of the generations that came before us.
My parents graciously offered to help us on our expenditure and I set off on the task of finding the perfect new carpeting.
During my hunt, I came to a profound realization as to what exactly I was looking for in carpeting.
I wanted carpeting that looked like dirt.
Not REAL dirt. But dirt nonetheless. Because it will get dirty and I don't want it to show up.
SO I want carpeting that is actually clean (for now) but will still look the SAME (even if dirty).
Seeing as we have regular "Phoenix has barfed the fertilizer she ate up in the corner of the closet" moments, this is very important to me.
I made the rounds to a carpet store and Home Depot, met a lovely lady named Kim at Carpet One who sold me some nice (clean) but dirty carpet and thus began our journey.
Now, don't forget, we live in our house currently. with lots and lots of stuff. And unfortunately for us, the carpet is UNDER all that stuff (who knew?)
To get the NEW carpet UNDER our old stuff we had to move it ALL elsewhere. In the house. This made for a few interesting days.
The upstairs was done first and was slightly less painful.
Then the first floor came up to bat and it was yeah. Kind of awful. Never want to do it again.
This is what our house looked like this morning:
Can you see the kitchen?
And this:
Now here comes the fun part...
We were actually gone this past weekend on a fun trip to my parents (post to come) and on our return noted that our house was very cool. I mean, very cool. We(and I mean Mark) went down to check out the furnace at approx. 10pm on Monday night. The furnace it seemed, had entered retirement without letting us know. So we had someone come out to check it out and they thought they fixed it. But long story short, it was really really done.
SO we got a new furnace.
Anyways, that was just a short and very expensive tangent.
Back to the carpet.
About halfway through I began to wonder if it was truly worth all this work.
Then the carpet guys left, phoenix entered the room, sniffed around and promptly sprawled out.
Then Kyla crawled around rubbed her face in the new carpet and barfed.
Yup. It was a beautiful decision.
