Clean It Out!

We are tearing out the carpets on Friday and having them replaced with the LVP that is in the rest of the house.

It's one of those things that we knew we would be doing pretty quickly as soon as we moved in. The carpet they put in is just terrible. It was terrible from day one. Two years on and it's just gross. When we replaced the carpets after 15 years in the townhouse they looked better than these do. (to be fair when we bought the townhouse we did the upgraded carpet option because who wants builder's grade carpet?)

Our neighbors were more on the ball than we were and had it done before they ever moved in. Which, of course, would have been the easier way. I just didn't realize that they were this terrible. And, of course, getting any sort of building materials at the time was a total crap shoot. So even when we decided to replace them right away we were met with a lot of...well...no. 

So anyway, Friday the carpets will be yanked out and hard flooring put in everywhere. 

Which will lead to a little bit of rug shopping. 

And then everything that I am loading into the garage from closets and shelves will be sorted as it's put back and it will be just like moving in all over again. 

So another year or so before it's all done. 

Oh yeah, and we are looking for a new dining room table and possibly a new couch for the media room. Or maybe just finding someone to reupholster the little one we have. 

We gave Katie and the girls the bigger and smaller couches that were in there. The ones we bought for the basement in the old place and then when we moved in here realized were too slouchy for the main room. They were too big, really, for the new media room but the girls thought they would work in their place so they got them. 

We also gave them our dining room table. When we put in the bank of cabinets it made the space a little tighter and Brent really wanted a rectangular table for it. By giving the girls the table we had we started the clock on actually replacing it instead of just talking about replacing it and not liking it. But tables are freaking expensive. So now we are trying to decide if we buy a really nice one from Key Home Furnishings or buy a less nice one from Macy's or Wayfair. 

Fancy problems. 

We're also considering some other options which I won't write about until maybe this weekend, but there are other things on the horizon as well. 

Suffice it to say that August is Augusting.