We're Floored

So this week we've been priming and painting closet shelves and doors and the doors to the master bedroom. They cleaned up nicely, and today the carpet installers came. We bought our carpet at Carpet Liquidators. The service was good, the prices were good, and the installation seems pretty good, to me. Of course, I'm not a carpet snob, but it seems like they did the best they could with the uneven, pitted subflooring. And everybody we dealt with, from the sales guy to the installation guy, was very, very nice. Funny, getting the house was such a pain in the ass, and everybody we dealt with was so horrible, but so far all the contractors we've dealt with (carpet guys, plumbing guys, stove guy) have all been really great. It's nice to have some things go right.

Anyway, the entire house is now covered with nice, new, cheapo grey-blue carpet. I actually really like the color, and it goes well with the poorly painted walls in the rest of the house. The master bedroom looks very nice. If it had new windows, it'd look like a brand-new room. I feel good about moving in there in a couple of weeks. It's still going to be very, very difficult to leave our current apartment. It's so cozy and nice, and we love the view, but the new place will serve us well.

I think that having the carpet in gives us a much better idea of just how cute the little rat hole can be someday. I'm really looking forward to it. The carpet changes the whole look and feel of the house, and it's not even nice carpet. Imagine what wood floors will do...

The installation of the carpet also marks the beginning of our break from the rat hole. We're going to put doors back on tonight, and then we'll be too busy with the holidays to mess with it any more, not to mention we'll be out of town. So, we'll let the carpet off-gas while we're gone, and when we come back, we can focus on actually moving into our newly-floored place.