Saturday Project #6

My dream has come true: We got new floors!!! And they're gorgeous. We are so happy with the work and how they turned out. Anyone who is considering working with Empire, we can highly recommend them!

We've been not only wanting new floors for a while, but lately it has seemed more of a necessity too. The carpet was only 2 years old, but looked worse for the wear. First of all, it was near-white (not chosen by us) which is just bad who ever you are. Second, we have 1 dog who has taken his jealousy of Harper out on the carpet, freckling it with his little spots. And another dog who could easily be Pigpen's twin, as he seems to be a walking dirt cloud. Both of these things do not bode well for a clean carpet. With Harper getting more and more active daily, and with it becoming harder to keep up with vacuuming, let alone shampooing, something needed to be done. We had planned on doing the job ourselves, but I thought it would be a good idea to find out how much it would be for Empire to do it, thinking that maybe the cost of having someone else tear out the old, level the floors and install the new would be well worth the inconvenience of us trying to figure it all out. And it was! Having them finish 3 rooms in about 6 hours was beyond better than we could have imagined.

Technically it was a Friday project, but we've spent a good portion of our Saturday cleaning up all the dust and putting furniture back. Jon was here while they installed it and he said it was really gross to see all the "sand-like" dirt that came out of the carpet when they tore it up. Gross. For once, I'm glad I was at work and didn't have to witness that or the mess of it all happening.

Here's how it all went:

Finished Bedroom

Finished Living Room (before it was cleaned)

Finished Office