Carpet is a big step! Once we have all the flooring down we feel like we can finally start moving some stuff over! We chose the this carpet made of 50% recycled bottles to get some green building credit. It has pinstripes–so fancy. We chose a recycled carpet padding as well–bring on the recycled content credit! We purchased and installed through home depot.

Home Depot install services were pretty straightforward, but we started early on this so not sure how it would work if you were in a rush.

1. Call and set up a measurement. (This costs $50, but will go towards the final carpet payment if you end up installing with them.)
2. The guy comes and measures everything (it only took about 30 minutes).
3. That guy submits his numbers to the Home Depot ordering folks and they email me a quote that expires in a couple days.
4. It took me another couple weeks to confirm the order (by making a payment) so they had to requote me (luckily the cost stayed the same).
5. Once I made my payment, they send my info off to their subcontractor carpet installers.
6. The subcontractors gave me a call to schedule the install. They were able to get an install appointment within 7 days.
7. Subcontractors came and did the install!

Note: we installed carpet on the entire upstairs and down the main stairs so it was actually a pretty big job. The carpet installers were also dukeing out their territory with the stair railing guys so in the end they were not able to finish the stairs on the same day as the upstairs. This actually worked out really well though, because we had movers coming between the upstairs carpet install and the stair carpet install which means we didn’t have to worry about them dirtying up the stairs while they were lugging up furniture.