We had just arrived home from a week of vacation at my parents earlier that evening. So rested and relaxed after a week of very few if any stresses. Good to be home however, and back in my bed…then I heard the sound…that sound that after four kids, I knew was not a good sound. It woke me from a dead sleep but even still I knew it wasn’t good. And sure enough, I was right. It was not good!! My princess had become violently ill…ALL OVER THE PLACE!! I have never in my fourteen years of motherhood seen such a mess!!! It was all over her bedroom and all I could think to do was grab the camera!! What is my problem??!
After the photo shoot I decided to begin the dreaded cleaning up task. My Better Half called dibs on cleaning the Princess, I worked on the rest. I won’t go into details but it was bad! So bad that the carpet would NOT come clean. I scrubbed by hand and then with the carpet cleaner but it was not coming clean. I decided in my half awake state to bleach the carpet to get the smell and stains out. Let me just say for future reference…bleach, me, and the middle of the night do not go well together.
This picture doesn’t do it justice. I bleached white splotches here and there and everywhere on her cream but now clean carpet. It looked horrible.
After getting it “clean”, I went to bed. I knew when I woke up that my creative juices would flow again and I would find some way to salvage this carpet. I was wrong. I got online and started searching blogs for painting carpet and realized that that was not my best bet or my most frugal one either. So I got the “brilliant” idea to try RIT on the carpet and dye it.
Once again, not my best idea. Looked terrible…somewhat like a mangy Barney. After this failure, my Better Half reminded me of what might still be in the carpet padding and I decided I needed to tear up the carpet. So with extreme optimism, I began to dream of what may be under the carpet. The rest of this old house had hardwood floors when we moved in (old and worn hardwood floors I might add). Maybe this room’s floors were beautiful under the carpet and I would be uncovering this great treasure!! OK, third strike…wrong AGAIN!!
Isn’t this a beauty??!! I was partially right. The floors are hardwood (old and worn) but they are under this lovely peel and stick from decades ago!!
OK, enough is enough!! I marched myself out to Home Depot, bit the bullet and decided to lay laminate flooring in her room and be done with it. I couldn’t decide between the carpet and laminate and then reminisced to that “sound” and knew laminate flooring would be best!
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| I’m so glad I did. My Better Half and I worked together and got it all laid in about 4 hours and the results are faboo! |
It looks awesome!
Awesome job on laying the laminate flooring but sooo sorry to here your kiddo was so violently ill.
Hope she's feeling alot better! 🙂
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Looks Great!
It looks great. maybe you can help me out. We are just about at that point with our remodel and I can't make up my mind what kind of wood to go with. Lamenent, engineered or Hardwood..help to many choices http://theoutpost-jackied.blogspot.com/
AMAZING! I love the mangy barney comment! The room is now beautiful. Thank you for linking to Wicked Awesome Wednesday!
My daughter has been asking for laminate in her bedroom, but this is not a fun way to get it. It looks beautiful now! Funny how us bloggers grab our camera at the most insane moments in life.
love the new look
Love the final result… and the process to get there. Great post!
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Oh wow…it looks beautiful…wish I had the guts to rip out my carpet and lay floors down…
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I love the rug in the room! Where did you get it, or did you make it?
GORGEOUS…hope your wee one is all better now. Ummm…and your story is one for the Momma files!
You are a woman after my own heart. You tried and tried to salvage something from a grungy situation! Sometimes we just have to make the next best choice and yours worked out so well. Here’s hoping for a good end to your dishwasher situation!
Thanks for all your kind comments. The rug was from Walmart…$14.99.
Great job on the floor. Lets just say that a 20 month old, RED Gatorade Icypoles (to help keep fluids and electrolytes up) and carpet aren’t a good match either. and bleach just turned it a weird shade of light pink! LOL Oh well. Atleast you now have an easy to clean floor that should last her a very long time! 🙂
Blessings!
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Wow, what a transformation! She must be thrilled with her new space. Functional and gorgeous! I am a new follower from Tatertots and Jello. Vicky @ http://www.messforless.net
Looks great! Thanks so much for linking up to Tuesday Talent Show! I would love to have you stop by and link up again tomorrow with more great projects!
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Love this! I’m featuring you on DIY Thrifty Thursday at http://www.thrifty101.blogspot.com
Hope to see you again this week! 🙂
Michelle
There were certainly a lot of bumps to get to the finish but betting you felt good when you got there 🙂 The floor looks great!
Great! i love it, and i want to have it for my home, too. thanks.
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