There's no place like Gnome

Well we've finally had our new carpet fitted in the living room!

 

before...

 

after...

  

It's felt like a long wait.  It was rather enjoyable having such a productive day but someone else doing all the hard work. Once Chris had emptied the room and ripped up the old carpet, two nice chaps from Summerlings of Chesham came around and were all done with the living room, stairs and landing in under 2 hours. Simples.

 

We went for a beautiful loop pile carpet from the Cormar Malabar range in a flagstone colour. Depending on the retailer and whether they subsidise the fitting fee it's around £23-£26 per square metre, which is pretty good for 100% pure wool. Its woven texture looks lovely and warm, but more importantly it will be forgiving to cat hair, fluff and tread-wear. Who knew carpets could be so much fun? Although I have to admit when we were getting quotes I did stand in the carpet shop waiting for a grown-up to materialise make the final decision for us, because surely that can't be me.



The cat does not recall signing off the
budget code for this...

 

 If there's one thing that does make me feel a little grown-up it's owning a beautiful set of coasters, received as part of a birthday present from my awesome maid of honour...

  

And my parents visited the house for the first time since we moved in, bringing with them the birthday presents that would not have survived with the postman. One of them was this adopted gnome! I think he is a refugee from the Wembley branch of Ikea.

 

 In other news, Chris over-wrenched the hammer when ripping up the old carpet grips and made it look sad...