More House Changes

Since Christmas we have been working on some changes to the interior of our house.  These are things that have been in the back of our minds for sometime, but got sparked to life with the coming of the new baby.

First we painted the stairway and hallway walls (just the same neutral color as our downstairs walls).  The stairway is SO TALL, so it was a lot of work.  The girls were ecstatic to help paint a little bit!

After that we painted our 3rd room that use to be the computer room.  It will now be the babies room/sewing room, so we painted it the same neutral color.  I couldn't find a single pic of what the old walls looked like, but just envision mustard yellow walls with a maroon accent wall and this wallpaper border at the top.  The old occupant of this house LOVED wallpaper borders, and since it was a misc. room we just left it.

The computer found a new home downstairs in the dining area.  It fits well, and really doesn't feel squished.

Then we got new carpet upstairs!!!!!!!

The old carpet was so horrible in every way.  It was impossible to vacuum, had no cushion, looked and felt like Velcro and was basically super cheep carpet.

We LOVE our new carpet.  The pictures don't do it justice, but it is darker color than our old carpet and sooooo, soooooo, sooooo soft.  I don't know why we waited so long to replace it!

Before carpet in our room.  It doesn't look so bad, but it was.

The master bedroom piled up in the babies room.  They laid the carpet over 2 days so we didn't have to move anything up and down stairs, so nice of them!

The stairs while they were working. 

The previous carpet was actually laid over mud on the stairs, I know- very classy.  So they had to scrape and scrape away the old dried mud and clean it all up before they could lay the new stuff.

 Pictures with the new carpet.  It is really a lot nicer in real life.
The second day they laid the carpet Chris left out of town.  So all of the upstairs furniture was in the master bedroom.  I couldn't move the furniture back in the state I am in, so our wonderful home teacher and his wife came and moved it back, thank you!
All the rooms are a huge mess, but they will get put back together eventually.

 We have a few more items on the list to get completed before the baby comes.  We have 10 weeks, so we should be able to make it.