We went into town today to pick carpet! I was a bit nervous about leaving the house though, because Weston and his brother were over working on getting the mudding/texturing done. I just wanted to be around to know how things were going with that.
I was excited to finally be picking carpet, considering that means we are really almost done. But the process of picking carpet was really starting to make me mad after a while. Talking to Dave’s carpet guy, the quote he gave was based on about $25 per square yard. But NOTHING he showed us was actually that cheap. Kyle and I had gone to RC Willey a couple of weeks ago to start looking at carpet just to get some ideas before we had to officially pick something. We found some carpet that we really liked while we were there. When we found this same carpet at this showroom and asked how much it was, we were told that it was about $40 per square yard. So we kept looking. The salesman kept showing us other stuff and when we asked how much they were it was always $35-$40 per square yard. Well if we are going to pay $40 per square yard we might as well get that carpet that we both really liked, not something else. The only reason we kept looking was to see if we could find something else that we both liked that was cheaper. Eventually, I really just wanted to be out of there because the sales man we really starting to bug me and we just decided to get the really expensive carpet that we both liked. Then we had to pick some kind of flooring for the laundry room. I told the salesman that I did NOT want the cheap vinyl flooring that dents and rips if you drop anything on it, and I have seen washers and driers tear up that kind of flooring before. I also did not want ceramic tile because that can crack under the weight of the washer and drier. So the salesman showed us another vinyl flooring that looked like tiles, but they weren’t the thin vinyl floor stickers that my mom used to use. They were nice thick pieces of vinyl, that looked sturdy. So we brought out the swatch of the carpet color that we liked and we picked the tiles that looked the best with it. So it’s done. We picked our flooring. We are going to end up paying extra for the nicer stuff, but hey, it’s NICER. đŸ™‚