This falls under the heading: Stuff I couldn't imagine caring about 10 years ago
Anyway, it turns out, to my great surprise, that there is actually a new carpet smell! I figured it was just the strange cologne carpet salesmen wear...
And now that new carpet smell is in our house. We redid the family room with newer, darker, cushier carpeting, called currant pureé. Yup. It's like chocolate brown, but with a subconscious hint of reddish-ness-stuff. Like a Currant! Kathy says it's like mink, but I don't see a lot of minks to compare to.
Basically, we're spending a lot redecorating, but it's always in $1000 increments, so it doesn't hurt as much.
Death by 1000 cuts, as it were.
As you can see from our updated family room page, my bro-in-law Mike helped me depopulate and strip and clean the room before the carpeting guys arrived so I could fix a few squeaks in the floorboards.
Good project, and despite seeming amazingly dark, not so dark once it's in, very pleased so far (24 hours, no stains. Whoopee!)
Posted by BilFish at January 26, 2005 09:06 AM