Carpet is Icky

Now that the cable guy finally made it to our house I can share why I think carpet is absolutely disgusting. Unfortunately, I'm missing the two best pictures from the whole ordeal. The first is the underside of the carpet in the dining room which was absolutely disgusting and smelt beyond horrible. Thank goodness for N95 masks! The second would be a before and after of all that nasty carpet rolled up in our driveway and then our driveway later that afternoon after random people have come by and picked it up. All for free! 

That's the dirt that went through the carpet and through the padding. 

And just sat there. 

For who knows how long.

Gross.

 Same door that is in the picture above. The tack strip is even rotted and rusted and the smell is still slightly there of "I'm not sure what that is but I probably don't want to know."

Halfway done cleaning the hallway. That shop-vac has already proven it's worth and we're just barely getting this party started!

When we started planning how we wanted to remodel, Husbind wanted carpet in the bedrooms and den. I wanted to tile the whole house. Then Suzy puked in our bedroom and he decided that we should probably put carpet in areas where the dogs hang out which covered the Master and Den. Then we ripped up the carpet. And now it's tile - all the way. 

We bought a house!

So Logan and I are going all out at this whole being an adult thing. In the past 4 months, Logan graduated, we moved to a new town about 5 hours away, we both got new jobs, and we bought a house! One of our friends recently asked us "So what do you plan on doing for an encore next year?" Not sure what next year will hold, but for now I am stoked to have a real house with a real yard and to not have a move out date in sight. 

The house we bought was built in 1983 and it has aged incredibly well. It has lots of character like archways from room to room and panned ceilings, but it also has the original carpet and kitchen from 30 years ago. Now if we were snobs on House Hunters, we wouldn't have even made it in the front door that first time. However, we're more like Property Brother's ideal client in that we're really good at seeing through what is on the surface and imagining what it can become. I'm actually really glad that they didn't do any updates because this allows me to spend my afternoon at Lowe's today in the Kitchen center designing a brand new kitchen that is exactly the colors and appliances that I we want :)

Coming up next: The "Before" pictures. Since I won't remember to take one before each project, I figured I should take/post them all now. Well tomorrow most likely.