Are you getting tired of me talking about carpet tiles yet? Yes? No? Truthfully, I am getting kind of tired of carpet tiles, myself. Tired of installing them, anyway, but our basement office/studio needed some sprucing up. The room was cold and uninviting, and we never wanted to spend any time there. And that’s kind of a shame […]
Hallway mini-makeover
It occurred to me that I never posted photos of our hallway mini-makeover. I say “mini” because a hallway just doesn’t have that much to make over, but almost every inch of it has been re-done. Before from before we moved in This hallway needed an overhaul. It was dark, the carpet was that ubiquitous beige […]
Hallway carpet: done!
I’m so excited our hallway carpet is done! I laid every last inch of it myself and have the dull carpet knife to prove it. The base molding still needs to be replaced and I need to get some of those metal strips for the edges. The carpet tiles have a heavy backing and they don’t require […]
A story about carpet tiles and a $200+ savings!
On the hunt for carpet tiles for the basement office, I made a trip out to Hood’s, a local home improvement outlet store. They have a huge 99-cent carpet tile section with pallettes full of Mohawk and Interface carpet tiles. The only trouble is, you have to sift through to find ones that match and […]
What lies beneath… the carpet
Yikes! This is the tile that was underneath our hallway carpet. Who would have guessed? I’m going to take the week off from posting to work on this and some other big projects. See you next week!