Home Improvement Day #1

So, we have lived in this house now for a little over 2 years and my carpet has been crap for oh 1.34 of those years. I don't blame the previous owners for doing a cheapo job just to spruce up the place for selling it but with our 3 pooches and the few parties we had over the first 2 years it took a major beating and needed replaced before our lydia bug starts crawling.

Up close look at the carpet pulling up by our fire place

Before Picture

So I have always looooved hard wood floors, I love old homes with all the nice hard wood floors and the character that it adds to a house. Also, with the dogs it will be so much easier to care for, their hair won't get stuck permanently into the carpet, they can't get their little claws into the seam and rip it, and they can't stain it! All major pluses in my book. Plus when spills come having tile in the kitchen and wood laminate (yes much cheaper than the real thing) in the living room will leave the majority of the house spill proof, just wipe it up!

Nasty seam that ran through the middle of our room

So we finally decided that we would take some of our tax refund money we had put away in case I could get into a new car (which didn't happen) and use it towards this floor and we would get it done before I have to go back to work. ::anxiety attack begins now over the word work::

To save money we have decided to pull all the old stuff up ourselves. Saved me a good $400 plus we are putting all the quarter rounds in after it is down, perks to having builders in the family.

Sunday = #1 of home improvement and my mom and dad came to help pull all the tac strips up that lined the whole room. That stuff is NASTY!

Luckily the carpet looks like it isn't going to give us that much trouble coming up so we are saving that until the last minute so we aren't walking on concrete.


Now a look at our little girls guardians keeping her safe from all the ruckus that was going on, don't worry we quickly moved her into another room and the dogs into the kitchen when we really got to work, this was just while my mom and I assessed the situation. They knew something was up though.


Ooooh Day 2 post to come tomorrow :)