today we finally replaced the oscar-the-grouch carpet that we hated since the first time we saw the house! first, we hated it. then, once we got our own furniture in the room we decided it wasn’t thaaat bad and although it was old and very green, it was still in decent shape since the gentleman who lived here before us just stacked the room up to the eyeballs in boxes of stuff. plus, having new carpet installed in a room that’s over 300 square feet is not cheap. and also, we are decision-making impaired and couldn’t choose carpet. but finally, all things have come together. we have scraped together the cash. we have chosen a style of carpet. and we have paid someone else to install it in two hours instead of spending most of a weekend at it ourselves and ending up with wrinkles and other ugly bits and very sore hands and knees. and it looks lovely. and (this is the best part) it’s clean.
to celebrate, i asked an interior-decoratingly gifted friend of mine to come over this evening to come up with a new furniture arrangement and darned if she didn’t come up with a great new layout that energizes the room and makes me smile when i see it. i love it when furniture gets rearranged–the little zing of “new” that you feel when you walk into the room (and it’s a pretty cheap update!). i usually get really stuck on a certain arrangement. i get it the way i like it and then get in a rut of “well, that’s about the only way to put the furniture in this room” and now, thanks to my friend and some new carpet–i have a whole new living room. hurrah!
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