Colby and Elle on the new carpet.
I'll start this by saying, I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of this event. But thought I should mention it, since it really was the first thing we did.
The first thing up was new carpet for the house. The old owners had a cat, and I'm allergic to cats. And even more important than that, each room had a different kind/color of carpet. We like things to flow a little better in our house, so we set off to Nebraska Furniture Mart to purchase carpet. Even after finding a "super buy" carpet, we were hit with a $10k cost to re-carpet the whole house. We decided to take off the dining room, we will be changing that to hardwoods eventually. We also removed the rec room, since it will eventually be converted into a bedroom and bathroom for Bella. And lastly we removed the main entry stairs, as we have grand plans to do hardwood treads with a carpet runner. So after those deductions it was a little easier to swallow, but still a large chunk of change. I guess some of the additional projects will have to wait a little while until we pay off some of the carpet.
We also decided to pull up and haul away all of the existing carpet. This meant we had to leave our furniture out in the pod storage units until the new carpet could be installed, which was about 1.5 weeks after we moved in. Jesse and I spent every night for a week ripping out carpet, tack strips, padding, and screwing down the plywood subfloor. I even got more ambitious and painted some of the floor trim, since it was easier to do while the carpet was gone. All in all it went well, with a little help from our friends in watching Bella and ripping out carpet. There was only one night where we got a little stressed in trying to finish it up and had to "stop talking to each other" for awhile.
The carpet guys came in and installed in one day, and then finally that next weekend we could move all our things in. It looks good, now we just need to get the dining room, and main stairs done, so it doesn't look so disjointed. Because sadly, it doesn't look much better on the main floor than it did before we moved in. But the upstairs is now one continuous carpet instead of 5 different types.
I'll start this by saying, I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of this event. But thought I should mention it, since it really was the first thing we did.The first thing up was new carpet for the house. The old owners had a cat, and I'm allergic to cats. And even more important than that, each room had a different kind/color of carpet. We like things to flow a little better in our house, so we set off to Nebraska Furniture Mart to purchase carpet. Even after finding a "super buy" carpet, we were hit with a $10k cost to re-carpet the whole house. We decided to take off the dining room, we will be changing that to hardwoods eventually. We also removed the rec room, since it will eventually be converted into a bedroom and bathroom for Bella. And lastly we removed the main entry stairs, as we have grand plans to do hardwood treads with a carpet runner. So after those deductions it was a little easier to swallow, but still a large chunk of change. I guess some of the additional projects will have to wait a little while until we pay off some of the carpet.
We also decided to pull up and haul away all of the existing carpet. This meant we had to leave our furniture out in the pod storage units until the new carpet could be installed, which was about 1.5 weeks after we moved in. Jesse and I spent every night for a week ripping out carpet, tack strips, padding, and screwing down the plywood subfloor. I even got more ambitious and painted some of the floor trim, since it was easier to do while the carpet was gone. All in all it went well, with a little help from our friends in watching Bella and ripping out carpet. There was only one night where we got a little stressed in trying to finish it up and had to "stop talking to each other" for awhile.
The carpet guys came in and installed in one day, and then finally that next weekend we could move all our things in. It looks good, now we just need to get the dining room, and main stairs done, so it doesn't look so disjointed. Because sadly, it doesn't look much better on the main floor than it did before we moved in. But the upstairs is now one continuous carpet instead of 5 different types.
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