New Carpet!!!!

I can hardly believe that I can actually say that we have new carpet.  But we do!  First, a look at the lovely, cushy, new stuff.

in the living room

in the family room

close up of the texture

In truth, none of the pictures is terribly close to the true color.  The carpet is actually more golden brown than these photos would lead you to believe.  And there is no way that photos can begin to show how cushy and comfy that this carpet is.  Such a huge change from the old ratty original.

And that brings me to my second point.  Twenty six years is just too long to wait to replace carpet, especially builder's grade carpet.    Mike and I have had MAJOR differences of opinion about making this change.  Now that it is finally done, he has been making comments like "well, maybe we should go ahead and replace the upstairs carpet, too" (upstairs carpet is also 26 years old.)  Methinks that spending some time on the new cushy loveliness has helped him realize just how awful the old stuff was.  At last.