One year ago on this date the title of our blog entry was "Water is Free Again" since John was back in the US for business enjoying free water in restaurants. Erin was still in Amsterdam in our apartment on that day.
Now that we are back in a house, much time is spent fixing things and remodeling. This week we've discovered that, while water in restaurants may be free in this country, carpet is anything but. We just want one little living room worth of carpet. And since it's the only room in the house with carpet now, we'd like for it to be fairly decent carpet. Who knew it would be so expensive? Now, we are used to getting many things for free, but we knew free carpet would not be acceptable and had planned to pay the price this time. We don't want carpet that freshens the air and shields itself from even the toughest stains while cleaning itself and the rest of the house, backed by a 290 year warranty. We just want carpet that feels soft when you walk on it. At a decent price. So far, the search continues.
If we had concrete floors (which we do not owing to the fact that our house is too old to have a slab foundation), this whole thing would be easily settled by just doing something fancy to the concrete that's already there (that's the "in" thing to do, right?) and putting down a nice rug. Surely painting or staining concrete can't cost as much as carpet, can it?
For now, we will live with freshly painted gold walls and the old green carpet. Hmmm. Now that we think of it, these colors in our living room can kind of be a salute to our alma mater. Sic 'em bears!
Seriously, let us know if you happen to be getting rid of your carpet that's still in good shape and not green.
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