Magic Carpet

Lots of people have been asking to see photos of our new place. And I haven’t really given them anything to view. It was too nasty to expose to the world wide web.

Our current carpet is being torn out by some fine gentlemen from Lowe’s. The head hauncho said, “Do you want to keep any of it?”

Sir Luke and I both replied with a resounding “NO!”

The reason for this intense response was the foulness of said carpet. All Sir Luke could say as we were driving across the country was, “Just know the carpet is disgusting.” He must have warned me about fifteen times. He was right, it was disgusting. We’ve been painting since we got here (painting walls sucks) and we finally finished painting all the carpeted areas. Reasoning behind this was so that we wouldn’t have to worry about splattering paint on brand new carpet. Instead we just dribbled wherever we liked. I haven’t gone barefoot in our house since we got here and only recently conceded to actually sitting on the bare floor, unless I was painting baseboards.

Have a little looksie at the final outcome. Oh, and no we didn’t get to choose the carpet, since we’re renting, but we did get to choose the paint, with approval.

We chose Behr paint from Home Depot. Nearly the entire house is white. Two walls in the living room are blue and one wall in the bedroom is grey. I want to name paint colors. How cool would that job be? Those swatches aren’t exactly accurate, but they’re close enough to get the idea.

Here are some before and after photos of the carpet. Don’t mind our messy house, we’re finally able to begin moving in. Yes, after two months, we can finally move our stuff in for real.

One crappy thing is that the carpet men used some crazy mechanism to put the carpet in and scuffed up every baseboard I’ve painted for the last few weeks…grrrr. Let’s just say there was a slight breakdown. But the guy in charge ended up touching some of it up. Thanks!

It’s great to finally walk around the house without shoes on. And I don’t throw up in my mouth if I have to sit on the floor.

This is was the only place we had left in our house. It was that or the laundry room…