New Carpet Coming Soon
So our house is about 10 years old. Builder grade carpeting has a life expectancy of about 5 years, and our carpet - especially the stuff in the living room downstairs - is dead dead dead.
My sister had her house recarpeted by Dalton Carpets a few years ago and said they did a pretty good job, so we gave them a call. They have no showroom and no significant warehouse. All the carpet is ordered from the factory, and they offer excellent prices for installed carpet. We had been looking at Home Depot, but even given their relatively low $199 "whole house" installation, we're getting a MUCH nicer carpet and pad at a lower price.
Here's a sample of the Shangrila Palomino we're having put in. It's a high density Frieze style carpet that should be very suitable for our high traffic living room. And it won't show the dirt we track in either!
We're also carpeting Emily's room - even let her pick the color - she went with a Westn Hill "Electric Blue" carpet. The clash with her 'disney princess pink" walls will be blinding so we're gonna get her room repainted pretty quickly!
We're also having Home Depot come out to measure on Thursday for doing hardwood on the stairway and second floor landing - that way we won't have carpet clash between Emily's room and the landing =)