I have been on the hunt for wool carpet for our youngest’s room for way too long, but I just couldn’t stomach paying $1400 for carpeting ONE bedroom! The idea of continuing the hardwood that runs throughout the rest of the house was a slightly cheaper option, but didn’t seem very cozy for a bedroom and I would still have to buy an area rug.
Finally the search is over! Jason and I were driving past End of the Roll Carpet in Vancouver last week and swerved into the parking lot when we noticed their sign saying that they now stock wool carpet! Good quality, affordable wool carpet! They have made my day!
So, in preparation for the install we need to rip up the existing carpeting, but it’s proving to be no small task. If the previous homeowners are reading, I would just like to say that gluing down carpet is just not cool. We know now why they didn’t renovate this room for thirty years! So, there is a lot of scraping going on upstairs right now thanks to my very hard working hubby! It’s going to look fabulous! And now I can finally move forward with setting up Ben’s bedroom so he can have his own room again!
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Yay for affordable wool carpet but boo for glue-down past homeowners! Hope you can get through the worst of it quickly
ooooh I know all toooo well what you are talking about with this glue job……..yikes, moved into a house once….they thought they had to GLUE down ALL the nasty looking carpeting……..it was a nightmare getting it up so I feel for the hubby down in the throngs of scraping all that nasty foamy gunk off the floor but in the end it is sooooooooo worth it.
I can’t imagine a whole house full of glued down carpet Cynthia! Yikes! I’m looking forward to the sooooo worth it part! They came and installed the WRONG carpet on Friday! Double yikes!!
Oh Boy, what a mess! But Yay! Happy you found what you were looking for.
Thanks for the tip. I gasped when I saw the estimate for carpeting a couple of bedrooms here too. Now you’ve inspired me. Just have to convince the hubby it’s what he “wants” to do.
Bummer about the glue. I shake my head some times at what people think are good ideas!
Yah!!! looking forward to seeing Ben’s room once it is done!
Oh but know that all the hard work will be well worth it. Can’t wait to see the reveal!!!!
oh wonderful…so happy for you guys & thanks for the tip! Yeah!
Awesome find! Sadly that was how carpets were installed back in the day:(
Yay for finding the right carpet, can’t wait to see the big reveal!!