Out with the old

The green carpet is finally gone!! Yeah!! We have finally updated and got rid of the ugly green, stained, pieced together carpet. Ok, maybe it wasn't that bad, but compared to our new tan carpet, it seemed pretty bad. :) We had the carpet installers here yesterday from 7:30 to about 1:30 working on the living room, dining room, and two sets of stairs. They said the stairs took quite a bit longer than usual. There were remnants of pink and dark brown carpet stuck in the nails on the stairs that had to be removed. The new carpet is so soft and makes the rooms look a lot lighter!
Below are some before and after shots:

On a side note, you can see our new patio rocker, in the first shot. And since we decided to be productive while the carpet was being installed, we put together the outdoor table yesterday. We then noticed that the four glass pieces that are supposed to fit in the top of the table do not fit. The table has rounded corners while the glass pieces have square corners. So back to Menards we go! :) But since it was so nice out yesterday, we ate lunch on the patio with our new chairs and uneven table anyway! :)