Flooring Choices

James and I just went through the process of having all new flooring put into our townhouse and let me tell you this was NOT a fun process.  We had off white carpet when we moved in.  We only lived here for 5 years and the carpet was gross, and we are clean people!  We would clean the carpet often and it would look great for about a week, but the stains would reappear.  It was very worn as well, they must have used crappy in stock carpet.  You get what you pay for!

We replaced all of our flooring with Pergo on the main floor and a darker carpet for the rest of the house.  The carpet is "speckled" and you can't see anything!!!  The materials used were not low end or high end.  We were not 100% sure if we were moving, so we wanted to get nice flooring if we stayed and also didn't want to pass on the shitty stuff that we got.  Hopefully we get our bang for our buck when we do move on the investment.

We decided to do most of the prep work, and boy was it HARD work.  We ended up saving about $1,000 bucks by pulling the carpet ourselves.  This included probably 10 trips to the dump, removal of about a million staples, moving heavy ass furniture, scraping glue off the basement floor, getting stuck numerous times with carpet tack strips, and weekends and weekends of hard hard work.  I think I would be working some OT and just pay to have it done next time.

WOW...what did that rant have to do with the new house??? We didn't want shitty ass carpet that was going to have to be replaced in 5 years.  The package that we got included the carpet style and color.  At first our sales rep was pretty set on telling us that you cannot change the package. I basically had to make this a deal breaker for us for him to tell us our other options.  It ended up being a really easy process, and I don't know why is was a big deal?

Below is a picture of the carpet that was included in the package.  The carpet is by the manufacturer  Shaw. and the name of it was Seattle Mist.  It was just too WHITE for us and it did end up being crap carpet as well.  It was only a 5 year carpet with no stain protection.  How in the heck is this the carpet they install with the "upgraded" design package.  Here is your granite and hardwood floor, and oh yeah your shitty carpet.  We could have opted to choose another color in the crappy carpet, but we decided to change the color and the actual carpet.

Here is the carpet we ended up choosing.  It was also by Shaw in the color Pebble.  It actually looks a lot like the carpet we just put in our town house.  This is a 10 year carpet and has a stain protection.  This upgrade will cost us about $2,000.00, but it will be worth it in the end.  The carpet will be in the basement, the family room, and the entire upstairs.  The rest will be hardwood by Rural Living in Misty Gray.  Below is a picture of the carpet and wood together.  I think they look great together!!