New Carpet

When we were choosing carpet for our new house back in 1998, I choose a berber carpet just for the TV room off the kitchen.  We had something simlar in our Texas house and I thought it managed the wear and tear of the kids and dogs well.  The sale person told me that I would be able to keep this carpet for 20 years, much longer than other carpets of that time.  It was true that in 2998 when we replaced our other carpet upstairs, there was no need to replace the TV room carpet.  However the past five years have been hard on it and so we decided it was time for a replacement.  It is so much work to change carpet in one room......hopefully we don't have to do it anywhere else for a long time.

The old carpet
It does give you a good reason to spring clean the whole room
when you are getting new carpet.

The new carpet

With the furniture back in

As we put the tv on the stand, both Gary and I commented that we liked the clean lines of not having a big
entertainment center around it.
After thinking about it over night,
we decided to go with it.

And there is where we moved the other pieces of the
entertainment center, into our bedroom on either
side of our existing furniture.  It is not a perfect match but very close.,
 I like having book shelves in our bedroom.

 This happened just a few days after we returned from our trip with most of the work being done inbetween conference sessions for the Church.  Like most projects like this, it is great to have it done.