it gets worse before it gets better, part 2

Here is a photo of our recent progress on our master bedroom. Do you like the new carpet? Oh yeah...there is no carpet, no pad either. Yeah...

The new carpet was ordered from Home Depot and was scheduled to be installed on Wednesday. When we ordered the carpet, we read in the fine print that the furniture moving fee did not include the bed. So, we decided that since we would be moving the bulk of furniture ourselves (the bulk being our queen-sized iron bed), we would skip the fee and move it all on our own. Then, we decided to cut a strip of carpet away from the wall so that the painters could paint all of the baseboards. Jeff then decided that he would just cut the remainder of the carpet and pad into strips and haul it away himself, saving us $30 or so in the process. All of this was done Monday and Tuesday in preparation for Wednesday's installation of the new carpet.

When the installers showed up on Wednesday the first red flag was that the carpet they brought was in a 12ft roll rather than the 15 ft we were expecting. With the 15ft width, the installers would not have had to make any seams when they laid the carpet in our room. When I followed the guy out to his truck to inspect the label on the roll he brought, I immediately knew that not only was the carpet the wrong width but was also the wrong color! %#@*!!!

Now we have no choice but to wait the 7-10 days that it takes for the carpet to travel from the manufacturer somewhere in Georgia to Dallas. To their credit, the friendly folks up at Home Depot have been very apologetic and very good (thus far) at trying to correct their mistake as quickly as possible.

On the bright side, the painters have come and gone and we love the color we picked out! We chose Colonnade Gray from Sherwin Williams which looked deceptively light on the swatch, but is just perfect on our walls. Always, alway, always spend the time and $5 to buy the sample paint can before you choose a color!!!

We (Jeff) also replaced the ceiling fan with one that was not manufactured in 1983. It looks great! Also, my new drapes arrived today and they are nothing short of lovely! They are so elegant and simple and just exactly what I wanted. Now the room is so soothing, until I look at the floor...



Even our poor pups don't know what to think!