Floors

It turns out we have a rather massive area to carpet here. We've always been keen on replacing the green shag-pile carpet in the hall and on the stairs and landing, but until now haven't really had a good excuse to do so (for reasons of cost, not liking it was just not excuse enough)!  With the stairs now extended, we pretty much have to. Oh-dear-how-sad. But our hall is a good size, and our landing... well, it has the same footprint as the hall. (When we had the house surveyed before we bought it, we were amused by the surveyor's assessment of the landing as a 'profligate use of space'; he evidently wasn't impressed, but we rather like it.) So, we have all that to re-carpet, and then the new stairs, the second-floor landing (which is small but perfectly serviceable), the bedroom and the dressing-room. In all, it amounts to over 100 square metres of carpet. Which is, apparently, roughly equivalent to the carpeted area of an average 4-bed new-build.  How frightening!

However, last weekend we managed to find a carpet that we're happy with – in what I shall call 'bearable beige', because I haven't a clue about the (almost certainly) daft name by which this colour variation is otherwise known. It's beige. At the pinkish end of the beige spectrum, I guess. A nice enough, very safe, goes-with-almost-anything colour. And 80% wool, and a decent quality. And it's even a bit of a bargain. Even so – and especially with the cost of the underlay added in – it all adds up!

But we still felt we could then splash out on a nice bit of LVT flooring from Gerflor. There's a 4-week delay on it, but we've realised that it's going to be quite a while before we can 'move in' upstairs, anyway, because we'll have to wait a lot longer for the curtains: rather stupidly, we didn't think to get ahead with those, and they'll need to be made to measure.  Of which, more anon.