More schoolroom work…
Last night around 8pm we decided to lay new carpet in the schoolroom. What the hell was I thinking when I volunteered for that job at that hour? We ripped out the old carpet and padding. This was rather disgusting as it was the original 20 year old carpet for the house. The carpet’s backing was a nice patchwork of stains. After pulling up the padding we were amazed at the amount of dirt that made it through the carpet and padding. IT was a sandbox in there. Next I went to Home Depot and picked up some new padding and rented a knee kicker. We had been given carpet from my aunt’s house they had built a couple years ago. The carpet was pulled out 2 weeks after the house was completed because the color didn’t match the rest of the carpet in her house. The largest piece was about a foot short of being long enough to do the whole room’s 11’x15′ dimensions. Damnit. Now I had to lay a patch near the door. It doesn’t look too bad, it almost looks like I knew what I was doing. Laying the carpet wasn’t a big deal, just tiring. My ol’ knees didn’t like all that crawling. I can’t complain though because this time last year, before my surgery, I couldn’t crawl at all. We finally finished around 1am this morning.
We were able to redo the whole room for under $100. Shannon found the paint at Lowe’s, 2 gallons for $6. Always check that seconds rack. Padding, tape, and kicker rental was $70. Now that’s remodeling on a budget.
The room looks pretty nice now. Now Shannon will attack it with her paintbrushes to spice it up. It’s going to have a ‘movie’ theme. She’ll be doing a mural of a scene from her favorite movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and hanging all of her movie posters. I’ll post pics when that room is done.
: 8 Mile from the album “8 Mile” by Eminem