Carpeted Stairs

When you walk into our house there are two sets of stairs, each with 6 steps. One goes up, one goes down. These have carpet on them and I hate it. The reason for hating it is because you walk on the stairs as soon as you come in the door, so they are perpetually dirty, and dog hairs stick in that spot at the back of the stairs and it looks gross. Vacuuming stairs is really not fun and since my upright vacuum recently died and my roomba does not do stairs, the stairs are looking pretty bad.

We have decided that someday when we re-carpet the house and re-do the kitchen floors we would like to make these stairs hard wood (as well as the kitchen) so they can just be swept and no more carpet to be dirty and stained. However, there is another set of stairs in our house! I know, crazy right? Three sets of stairs!? Anyway, these stairs, again 6 steps, go down into our basement bedroom. This room has not had carpet since we moved in and last weekend my mom and I repainted this room. On a quick run to the store for more paint we decided to stop at a flooring store, just to look. Turns out they were having an amazing sale on really great carpet with free installation! So we picked some carpet, paid our deposit and waited for a measurement.

We guessed that the room was about 12 x 12. The bad news is, we guessed wrong, the good news is, it's a great size room! It actually measures more like 16 x 16 plus the stairs. So we knew the estimated cost that we were given would go up quite a bit. Today I finally heard back on the measurements of the room and these new measurements, plus the stairs, adds almost $400 to what we thought it would be. BLAST!

I'm going today to show him the color I picked and hopefully get set up to have the carpet installed this week, pretty bummed about the huge increase in price, but it will be a beautiful room! And it will be such a nice guest room for all the family and friends that will be visiting to see the new baby!