New Floors - Carpet

As I wrote about in a previous post, we have pretty much "re-floored" our whole house in the past few weeks. Hand-scraped Laminate in the front part of the house and new carpet in the bedrooms. The living room, dining room and hallway got laminate flooring due to the unfortunate circumstance of our AC overflowing. The carpet in the bedroom came about in a much less dramatic way.

When the AC leaked, the insurance company did an evaluation of the carpet to see how much it was worth. We always knew it was cheap carpet but the evaluation proved just how cheap it really was. It was cheap. Several weeks later, Ryan's dad sold a home to a family that wanted to remove all the carpet. We asked what was going to happen to the carpet and learned that it would just be given to the different sub-contractors who wanted it, or we could have it. This was very very nice carpet, for free. So we started discussions with their carpet company about how much it would cost for installation and after several rounds of estimates and several days of discussion about whether it was "worth it" decided to go for it.

Here are pictures:

old carpet (light color) next to the new carpet (darker color)

Next to the new laminate floor

Next to the bathroom tile

Master Bedroom

I have never walked on such soft carpet. As Ryan said, it makes you want to just lay on it.