White carpet

We are still waiting to hear on the dive. The news was not good for the housing market again yesterday. Tom tells me that not liking a house for the white carpets is being unreasonable. I told him my passion for the dislike of carpet was as strong as his passion for the need for tobacco products.

It gnaws at my gut, the need to rip out carpet. I have ripped out carpet at every house we have owned. Tom even got to the point at one time where he made me swear to call him first before I started ripping out so he could have right of veto to the project. I started to discuss it with him early on so he would get used to the idea,. Then I would rip out while he was on a business trip. I never quite succeeding in getting rid of it all before we would move. But I always loved the look of the areas I had removed the carpet.

That is why the dive is so appealing. I can get that carpet out and never put it back in again. I can start from scratch when we tear down . My sister has a house fully laminated. It is lovely and always looks so clean and good and smells clean and good. There are no hidden pockets of dirt as you would find in carpet.

The homes I grew up with all had hard wood floors. Area rugs are beautiful. It is easy to sweep and quickly the house is ready for company. No loud vacuums or stains left over after the effort of cleaning. It looks expensive. The knowledge of the clean surface really appeals to me.
My nose isn't stuffy as much in a home with no carpet. Fleas, dust mites, dander, I can think of all sorts of things that hide in carpet.

Maybe its an OCD thing. But I get such joy from ripping out carpet and putting in anything but carpet. It is my passion. I can see a house with heated tiles, radiant flooring. Tile is very cold for the Northwest, but so lovely and so rich looking. The fake stuff is so realistic these days, why wouldn't you want to use it.

I am off to home depot today for light bulbs for work. I have the day off, but any excuse to browse those aisle for ideas, check out the flooring, is a fun day of exploration. I said I would pick up the light bulbs.

One of my dearest friends discovered at Lowe's, a canceled shipment of black marble. An office building downtown had canceled a big order. She drove all over town to every Lowe's, with her pick up truck, and bought for fifty cents a square foot, this lovely 12x12 marble. She has replaced her whole house carpet with a marble floor. Virtually indestructible, incredibly beautiful and rich looking. I start drooling as soon as I enter her front door. Its easily a $30,000 to $50,000 job that she did for around, $2000 including the hardie plank sub floor she had to buy for installation. It makes me melt.

What it proves to me is that there are like minded people out there in the world. I am not crazy about my dislike of carpet in my home. We will go to extremes to remove the carpet from our homes. We would rather live with sub flooring than carpet.

The move in ready house, that is at the extreme edge of our budget, if the owners would even come down in price, is all carpet. The kitchen is the only area without carpet. Tom tells me we could never build a comparable house for the price ourselves. He loves the lay out. For what ever reason, this house does nothing for me. The white carpets are an immediate turn off.

The budget would be tapped out and I would have to live in the stains and hidden dirt of a whole house full of this awful stuff. I honestly start to tense up and my gut roils at the thought. Tom would not let me start ripping out until damage is done.

It takes at least a year to get to the point where the carpets get stained enough and Tom doesn't say no.