New Carpet

Before

After

Up close

After 11 years of wear, the old carpet HAD to go. It had seen its fair share of love, wear and tear, baby spit up, potty training, purple Popsicles, juice, etc... And no matter how often you clean your carpets, when they are at the stage our old carpets were in - nothing seemed to help. With all the painting and everything we've done over the last 6 weeks, the new carpet was natural and necessary. And I love it! It is so soft and pretty!! Such a nice and welcome feeling to our eyes and bare feet too. We are so happy with how it turned out. And we know we got a good deal too. Rich's dad had us search high and low at all the known and unknown carpet places. We shopped till we dropped and it was so worth it in the end. Happy carpet!

My favorite was that when it was finally put in we sat down with the kids and had them make new rules about the carpet. This is what they came up with.

1. No food or drink in the family room (always been a rule - but not very well enforced before)

2. Keep things picked up (still a same rule as before)

and my favorite...

3. No testing the carpet (Sophie overheard us talking about how the carpet was stain resistant and they guaranteed that ANYTHING could come out of it including grape juice and spaghetti sauce. So she decided we didn't need to test the truth on the guarantee. Funny and smart girl)