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08/20/2008: "Carpets were installed Yesterday!"

You can’t believe what a difference it makes to have the carpets down and the walls painted. Here’s a quiz… what color are those walls? Let’s see what you all say and then I’ll explain.

We still have to paint all the white trim and doors, but the Master and Guest room are 95% finished. We have to add another coat of paint to the Master ceiling, but we ran into some issues with it so it may have to wait (nothing major, just areas where the spackle kinda peeled as we painted and we need to figure out how to fix - and yes, we primed everything). We also need to figure out how to repair the ceiling where the previous owners had an electrical socket and cable in the ceiling… Might be nice to watch the flat screen while laying down and looking up at the ceiling, but not really what I had planned.

Right now these two rooms are the only two getting new carpet. The Design Studio is keeping it’s carpet because it’s not too bad, and David wants hardwoods in his game room so for now we ripped out the old (it looked like someone was murdered on that carpet), and we have left the exposed plyboards… we’ll get to it all in good time. We also purchased the floating wood floor for the living room, so that’s our next project.

Back to the carpet… we did a little shopping around and found that Home Depot was the winner. Lowes had the same carpet for like $3.60 a square foot (or a carpet very similar) and their installation was $250. Home Depot has a sale cube and we found ours for like $1.60 a sq. foot with $199 installation. Not too shabby and the guys did a great job. I love it… I think I’ll sleep on it because it’s so soft.

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We have a color called Ironwood which has that tinge to it- I love it because it is soothing and EVERYTHING goes with it- easy to decorate around plus- it's different!

La said on Monday, August 25th @ 10 :02 PM CST

Yeah, a purplish color is what it looks like to me too. It was supposed to be a taupe-brownish color. Isn't is funny how the colors change depending on the light and after you get them on the wall. The color is not horrible, but we weren't looking for purple. We might change it later, but for now we may live with it to get the rest of the house done. It's comeing along!

Erin said on Monday, August 25th @ 10 :31 AM CST

Lookin' Lavendar to me... Love the color!

Sue said on Friday, August 22nd @ 05 :15 AM CST

You go girl! Looks awesome and it will all fall into place!

Love yas

The Bailey said on Thursday, August 21st @ 08 :06 PM CST

Looks great sweetie. I know it was hard work to scrape the popcorn, but i like the color on the wall. It will tone down once the furniture and bedding and drapes or window treatments are up. I am proud of you guys. It will be a most wonderful sanctuary!

Mom said on Thursday, August 21st @ 06 :26 PM CST

Looks good. How about a mauve,purplish,greyish for the color..It's hard to tell in just a picture. When do you plan to move in? Enjoy it, you will feel good when it looks the way you want it too. Nana

hot mama said on Thursday, August 21st @ 02 :40 PM CST

Looking good girlie!

beth said on Thursday, August 21st @ 11 :57 AM CST