Carpet and Weekend Visitors

The carpet is in!

The carpet guy was here at 8:30 on Friday morning and was finished by 10:45. He installed the carpet in the spare bedroom and closet, and the walk-in closet in our bedroom.

We are very pleased with the look of it. It makes the room feel completely different. We even debated taking the spare bedroom for ourselves since it smelled so clean and new and looked so great! Of course, with the new walk-in closet in the other bedroom that didn't make much sense!

They told us to just leave the baseboards on and he could install the new carpet with no problem. So that's what we did. Well, the previous owners painted the baseboards, which were stained wood, white (without removing the baseboards from the wall). So they only painted what parts of the baseboards were showing above the carpet. The old carpet was actually slightly thicker than the new carpet, therefore, with the new carpet in, you could see easily see the baseboards were 3/4 white and 1/4 wood stained. Ugh! Of course it wasn't a perfect line of where they had painted and where they hadn't. I didn't get a picture of it because I was embarrassed because it looked horrible. So I spent Friday afternoon taping the new carpet and painting the bottom parts of the baseboards white that were showing the wood stain still. What tedious work! I had to use one of my small craft paintbrushes because it was so close to the carpet and such a small line all around but still very noticeable.

Thank goodness it actually work out and made a huge difference! You can't even tell in the photos below. I wish I had a before photo to show you how big of a difference it made.

Enjoy the photos!

Spare bedroom with new carpet

Spare bedroom with new carpet before it's put back together

Spare bedroom view from hallway with new carpet

Spare bedroom with new carpet
(we had to empty the closet for carpet installation, it's full again now,
but soon to be empty with the new walk-in!)

Spare bedroom with new carpet

Spare bedroom with new carpet and somewhat put back together

Walk-in closet with new carpet

Walk-in closet with new carpet

We are just waiting for Doug to come back with the door and trim-work that he has stained and then Saturday we will have Mike's parents down to help us install the shelving, rods, and brackets! I know what I'll be doing Sunday - putting our closet to good use with all my our clothes and shoes!!

I'll be posting 'Before and After' photos soon and then hopefully a completely finished closet within the next week! Thanks for following our project!

I also wanted to share some photos of our visitors we had this weekend! We ended up working late into the night on Friday night to get the house back in order for our cousins Holly, Ryan and their boy Tate. They had a newly carpeted room all to themselves! Thought I would share a few photos from our weekend together.

Tate really enjoyed giving Bella treats
(Bella definitely got her fill)

Tate tried so hard to put her collar on

Tate trying to reason with Bella about putting the collar on

He just loved putting on my shoes
(tried on my flip flops, slippers, and tennis shoes)

What a funny boy! Too cute!

What a catch! Fishing at Swan Lake in Carroll

Mommy and Tate fishing - he just wanted to cast it over and over and over...

Checking out the baby fish they caught!