For the last 2 years I have been avoiding the issue of replacing the carpet in our home, the expense, the upheaval and facing carpet stores has put me off doing anything about it. Until a surprise find on our local "trade-me" auction site. I was looking for a brulee touch as a Christmas present for my husband - kinda musing at the options when I stumbled on a house-lot of nearly new, soft brown or dark fawn carpet.
Hubby ignored the item on the watch-list until the morning before when we had a look and worked out that it was both a good deal and a solution to the ever growing bald patches on our floor. Next thing we had carpet, renovating ideas and a 4 hr trip north to collect it. (Did I mention that our family van doesn't have a tow bar.)
We had some fun getting it home, courtesy to my Husband's Uncle and his flat-bed truck. Enjoyed catching up with Great Grandma on the family farm, and seriously prayed that the carpet would arrive dry as it had rained almost continually since we purchased it. It did its dry, and ready to go.
So in the next 4 weeks the aim is to:
- Tile the area by the french doors in the boys' room - the condensation off the frames runs down the edges onto the carpet.
- Take the wallpaper off our bedroom, sand, plaster and paint it.
- Paint the Artists bedroom,
- Remove the bookshelves in the lounge (I've been promised new ones),
- Remove an internal window between the lounge and the conservatory,
- Gib the lounge and dining room over the artificial wood panelling,
- Paint the lounge, dining and hall,
- and then carpet...
But once its finished we can relax and avoid any further mid school year disruptions - at least foreseeable ones. (We will finish painting the boys room and touching up the rest of the house in the school holidays..
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