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Carpet- Before and After

When we moved into our house a year ago we knew that one of the things we wanted to replace before we had kids was the wall-to-wall carpet in our living room, stairway and upstairs hall. We also wanted to replace the carpetin the basement family room.... The upstairs carpet had been used by the pets of the previous homeowners as their very own bathroom and no matter how many times we steam-vacced it we couldn't get rid of the smell, the stains, and the cat hair... Well, today the upstairs carpet was replaced!


Here are a few before pictures:

The Living Room:

Living Room Carpet- Before

The stairs (note that we didn't bother taping off the trim when we painted as we knew we'd be replacing the carpet):
The worst part, the nasty upstairs hallway:
And here's the after!
The living room:
The stairs:
Living Room Carpet- AFTER

The upstairs hallway (the door to the nursery is straight ahead!)

Living Room Carpet- AFTER

View of the living room from the stairs:

Living Room Carpet- AFTER
Now we just have to get the rest of the furniture back in place and we can enjoy our cushy new carpet!!!

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