New Floors!

Since tomorrow is the day I have been planning and saving for since last year, I thought I would write a little before post. 7 years ago we moved into this house thinking it was a starter home and that we would probably sell before kids came into the picture. Well the housing market crashed and we were stuck. If you didn't read the news about it, Tucson AZ was the worst city for real estate in the country! There was no way we would be able to get our money back. So here we are 7 years later and with two kids in our small home, we make it work. We have plans on moving in the next couple of years but its still a ways away. And until then, we are now financially at a place that we can save and start putting some money into this home.

When we bought the house the carpet and tile were only a year old. It was a nice color and it was fine at the time for us to live in. The owners before us even had it steam cleaned before we moved in. But the one thing I really did not like about the carpet was where it cut off from the tile in the dining area. It was at an angle that made our long table hard to fit. So any time we needed to use the leaf in the table we ended up on carpet. And it made our dining area look smaller than it really is.

 

Then we had kids. And when Nathan was born I started doing child care. Kids are MESSY! They are messy in every way, shape and form. And it ended up on and in the carpet. And no matter how much I tried to clean it up I know its still embedded in the carpet. Plus, we have people over A LOT. And I am not some one that makes them take their shoes off. So dirt and mud and more kids came in and out of our house.

Then Zachary came. He finds lose carpet and likes to pull at it and create holes and uncover the nails that hold the padding.

 

And then we noticed that the carpet was loosening up and creating bumps.

 

And after that we realized we didn't even think our carpet would survive a steam cleaning.

And so tomorrow we start the process of ripping it all up and laying down laminate wood flooring throughout our house (except the 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms). I am so excited I probably won't sleep tonight!

Can't wait to show you the after pictures!

This is the worn out area from all the walking to and from the kitchen

4 years ago we got a media table. We got rid of it but can you see the discoloration?

 All of these next shots are the before shots of what our home looked like with the old flooring. By the way, I made sure to take all of these photos when my house was at its messiest! I want the after shots to look 1 million times better! :)