Carpet before and after

The tile just before Wade chipped it all out. seriously folks, who puts TILE in the basement at the bottom of the stairs??? Ahh. A nightmare of a project BUT it was all worth it for the safety of the kids (and besides having pretty carpet. he he)

Yes, that's the dust still in the air...

The debris of tile after all was chipped out.

The culprit of our CO poisoning. CURSES! ha ha All the mortar had to be ground down so the carpet would lay flat. And Wade couldn't do it by hand. Apparently, we're not the only crazy people to get a trip to the hospital for using this thing.

Before: (with everything ripped out and gone!! and of course all the walls were repainted to this color. It used to be a dark gray. Hideous.)

After:

We picked out the color "Biscotti" and a little design in it. We seriously had the HARDEST time picking out between the short style (whatever it's called) and the slightly shaggy one that we had before. But we just decided to be different and go with this and we LOVE it. It's SO soft and comfy and now that the tile is gone, it sometimes feels warmer down here than upstairs which was a great decision besides being a soft landing in case the kids ever fall down again...which I hope is never.