Floors, Floors, Floors

We finally had a guy come to replace the hardwood floor. YAY! It looks really pretty, but I am in no way a fan of hardwood floors--especially in my little house. The noise would drive me crazy!! And can you imagine the echo when I tried to teach a piano lesson? Ugh.

So the next step was to pick carpet.

The hardwood guy gave us a bead on a local carpet company, so we went there and looked around and took home some samples. We found one we really liked. It had a good wear rating, good warranty. The other samples we took home that day were in the $25/yd range (including carpet, pad, labor, tax). The one we liked turned out to be $40/yd! Ouch. OUT of the price range. We looked around at their store some more, but didn't find anything we liked.

So we tried Home Depot.

There we found a couple of carpets we liked, took the samples home, chose one. It's a nice deep forest floor-ish kind of green, which will go nicely with the green and tan walls. It's getting to feel kind of cozy and cathartic in the front room--like languoring beside a gurgling Irish brook. ;-)

But the really great thing about this carpet is that it was selling for $18 a yard (regulary a $35/yd carpet), with a better wear rating and better warranty than any of the other capets we looked at.

We just have to figure out what to do with the piano while the carpet is being laid. It can't go outside in the heat--very bad on piano strings. It won't make the corners to put it into one of the bedrooms. I really don't want to take it down the steps into the family room, and I'm afraid it will damage the tiles if we try to put it in the kitchen (metal casters and the sheer weight of the thing). So I wondered if it might work to put down a sheet of plywood over the kitchen tile and push the piano up on it. Hmm. Just might work!

Darin and I also tiled the entryway last night. We still need to grout it, but it looks pretty cool!

After we were done we hauled some fudgesicles out of the freezer and went outside to enjoy the beautiful summer evening with our girls (Ian's away on High Adventure), and standing outside in our beautiful yard, we wondered if maybe we ought to look into adding on again and stay put. Yes, despite the neighbor. She really will die someday.

*shrug* I don't know.