Don’t Move House Just Change It
When moving into an old house or maybe just deciding to makeover a room in your existing home, there is nothing more satisfying than having a new carpet fitted after all the other decorating is done.
If for example you have decided to have a complete change to your sitting room, then having moved every piece of furniture out along with any wall hanging pictures, mirrors and possibly the flying geese, the next stage of rolling up the old carpet and whatever lies beneath follows.
This part can be fun if the carpet is very old and beneath it there are some old newspapers. A friend recently did this in an old terraced property he had just bought for around four hundred thousand pounds.
All that gets you in this part of London is a small three bedroomed terrace house. Beneath the stinking old carpet which by the date of the newspaper which lay there, the carpet was forty years old.
As he sat on the bare floor boards reading the faded yellow pages of the London Evening News dated nineteen seventy three, he found the property for sale adverts and promptly wished he had not!
There was a house like his for sale in the same road for twelve thousand pounds and even allowing for inflation it made for depressing reading.
Continuing with the sitting room improvement theme it has to be noted that when the room is cleared of every single moveable object and is then stripped bare of old wall paper the first impression is that it looks so much bigger.
When all the decorating is complete and perhaps some new electrical wiring to create better lighting than that old single middle of the ceiling bare bulb, the next stage is the floor.
At this point you suddenly realise that absolutely any pattern or colour in the new carpet is going to clash horribly with the wallpaper and this is one of those Homer moments.
Should the selection of the wallpaper have been made before or after the carpet selection?
Assuming a tasteful match between wallpaper and other painted woodwork go well with the new carpet then you will be in no rush to put the old furniture back.
With a good quality carpet underlay beneath the carpet there is a temptation to walk barefoot on the carpet and feel that spring which only comes with the thick rubber or foam underlay.
There is also something about the smell of a newly fitted carpet that is like that secret formula of chemicals that car manufacturers put in new cars. It’s almost like an aphrodisiac for some people and by the actions of the young couple who lived in the flat above us when they had just had a new carpet fitted one would have to say it works.
Cheap underlay can be a term to cover all types of this material when compared with new carpet and one should never be tempted to leave old carpet or old newspapers when that new carpet is laid.
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