New Carpet!

Ever since we bought this house, way back in 2003, we've fretted over the carpet in our living room. It was an off-white berber. Or, I should say it was an off-white berber at one time.

Lately it was a berber with multiple stains, tears, and various shades from off-white to dingy beige.

Over the years we've steam cleaned it, spot cleaned it, covered it up with furniture, until we really couldn't stand it any more.

In this picture from New Year's Eve, you can see some of it's loveliness. Look carefully at the lower right corner, just to the right of my foot. for one of the many irremovable stains.
Nice.

So, we took a long look at our savings, found some carpet we liked, got a quote and then went back and waved some cash in front of the salesman and asked him to give it to us for about 15% less. (Thanks Dave Ramsey!). He took the deal.

We wanted the carpet in the next day, so we spent that Friday night ripping up the old carpet and pad so they could come put it in first thing Saturday morning.It's strangely satisfying to rip out a floor covering that you've come to loathe. And it is scary what you find under the carpet and pad when that carpet has been in place for 20 years or more.

We were REALLY glad we were putting in new carpet.

The installers worked their magic.And now we have carpet that we're boldly unafraid to lay on.Now we're trying to figure out how soon we can afford to replace the aging blueness that covers our upstairs floors.