THE BATTLE OF WHITE

When we purchased our contemporary home three years ago, it came with a lot of white. As I have posted before about my white bathrooms and my quest to keep them clean and hair-free and how I have failed miserably, I will now talk about carpet.

I hate carpet.

Any kind of carpet.

Maybe I hate carpet because I have terrible allergies. Maybe I hate carpet because I currently have 4 dogs, 4 cats and 4 kids. I don't know. All I know is that I was freaking-ass-rubber-wall-crazy when I thought that we could embrace white carpet. I am not shitting you when I say that our entire third level of our home had beautiful, white, super soft and cushy-under-the-feet shag carpet.

After three years and several carpet cleanings, the cleaning companies gave up. They said, "Whatever the hell you are doing to this carpet is not coming out in our cleaning process. The last time we had this problem was cleaning the carpet from a home that was a Meth lab."

Great.

Here is my BEFORE picture of our stairs. Notice there is no white in this carpet. It is totally gray and disgusting.

Makes you want to puke doesn't it?

Here is our AFTER picture of our stairs......

Fabulous transformation! And the rest of the upstairs is done in that lovely cork that you saw under my Moon Boots Slippers in a former post.

Getting rid of the white......one project at a time. What's your latest home project?

WHITE & IT'S 3:50 AM #2

This is a picture of my powder room bathroom tile at 3:50 am. Exciting I know. Have I mentioned that everything in my house is white? I understand that the builder/designer of the home wanted a contemporary feel but cmon....
*Tiny white tiles in powder room plus all-white bathroom fixtures.
*White carpet throughout upstairs and basement.
*Master bath is completely white and tiled EVERYWHERE.
*White appliances in the kitchen.

What does this all mean?
With 4 children and 6 animals, complete filth and dirt at all times.

What the hell was I thinking?

Thanks for letting me rant. Now back to your regularly scheduled program......