The carpet is installed and feels great! I have been picking up miscellaneous staples here and there. Hopefully, all of those will be gone before we step on one.

Today the padding was installed for the carpet. Apparently, carpet isn't laid in a day. The anticipation continues to grow. Tomorrow will be the final product. Well, almost, because then I have to go back around all the baseboard trim and anywhere else that might have gotten scuffed in the install. Hopefully, it won't be too bad. They have forewarned me that it is a possibility.

Here are some finished rooms and the upper hall. Wow, what a difference the paint makes. We are staying pretty neutral upstairs for now. The bedrooms are all the same 'Desert Fortress'. The Bonus room is called 'Southern Shadow'. The darker color below the chair rail is 'Lyndhurst Timber'. You will just have to visit to get a true perception of the color. The pictures don't do it justice. With the fresh sparkle of the white trim and the smooth coat on the walls, it is really beginning to feel like a new house. Christie gets more and more excited each time she sees it.

The windows are not few and far between in this house, and neither is the amount of trim to be painted. Not only are the baseboards getting a fresh coat of white, but all of the windows, chair rails and crown moulding are too. According to my calculations, all the trim, windows, and doors will need almost 4 gallons of paint. I'll be glad to have that done and ready for the walls. That red and yellow in the breakfast room and kitchen have got to go.

In the upper picture of this set, you can see the crown moulding masked off and ready to paint. Phase one of the trim to be painted. This took 3 of us about a week to get it all done in the whole house.

These have been in my camera for almost 2 weeks now. The carpet was removed last week and finally you can see some progress on the transformation of our first home together. The rooms really echo without the carpet. The new carpet color is called Feather. Hopefully, the feel on our feet will be soft like a feather too.