Last month, Kyle and I bought a new set of bedroom furniture. Our first set of bedroom furniture! So our room has been undergoing some transformations. We moved our bed to the family room in the basement. My dresser went to the girls room, and Kyle’s dresser went to the boys room to be used for Lydia and Adam’s things since their clothes are all still in buckets because I have had nowhere else to put them. The desk went downstairs to the office, and the recliner and my treadmill went to the living room for the time being. The boys got to help move the dresser into their room:
Adam really enjoyed sitting in the drawers while they were out of the dresser:
Once we got our room cleared out, we proceeded to clean the carpet. I ended up going over it so many times I lost count. I cleaned it with soap and hot water, then I went over it some more with vinegar and hot water, and then we used some pet stain cleaner, and cleaned it some more….Unfortunately even with all of that, turning on a black light in the room while it was dark revealed that all the places Chewy has peed over the last 10 years did not wash out. Kyle and I were both really disgusted by this and started to wonder if maybe it was just time to replace the carpet. I really wish we had the money to replace all the carpet on the main floor, but we don’t. I don’t think the kids would be kind to new carpet anyway. So we decided to get a quote for replacing the carpet just in our room. Kyle called the same guy that we got the carpet for the basement from, since we were just going to get the same carpet and he would be able to access his records to look up what it was to order more. We ended up deciding to just go for it. Kyle wanted to rip out the yucky carpet on our own, because that would save us about $50. We also decided that since we were going to have new carpet and new furniture, that we should go get some paint so we could paint over all the scribbles the kids have graced our walls with. So a couple of days ago we bought some paint and supplies, and came home to rip out the carpet to get ready for the new carpet to arrive.
Kyle finished the painting last night, and the new carpet arrived this morning!
Obviously, since my room is nice and clean and all brand new feeling, the kids really wanted to hang out in there! Now to finish awaiting the arrival of the furniture…