November 15, 2011

• 93.85 Finished

  Yesterday morning I had the carpeting installed in my front room, hallway and bedroom. They were supposed to arrive at 9 in the am but were a half hour late which of course, pissed me off. Fortunately though it looks fantastic and I was very excited to finally get it done. You have to understand that I'm not exaggerating in the least when I say the carpeting was over 30 years old; in fact, it was at least 33 years old. I know some people say that you should replace carpeting every 10 years; while I don't know if it should be that often, certainly it should be more often then every 33 years. Needless to say, this was desperately needed.

  When they left, I stood there staring at the carpet with an excited and relieved smile on my face. Even though I had tons of help and have not done any of this on my own, I still felt quite a bit of a sense of accomplishment at the work we have done in this house over the course of the past month. My goal has been to get it all done by Thanksgiving and right now, all that is left is to install a three foot by four foot section of laminate flooring as soon as you walk in the house and the trim, along with a light fixture in my bedroom. And then of course, move all of the furniture back into their respective rooms.

  Like I've said, this whole thing was long long LONG overdue and quite honestly I never thought we would actually do this but yet here we are. At the beginning of year I said my goal was to remodel my kitchen. While we didn't quite get that done, this was certainly the next best thing and because of the work we have done it will save some money on the energy bills. I have spent a ton of money to do this but in the end it is all going to be worth it. Oh, and had I paid a contractor to do it, shit, the price would have probably been triple.

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