Room and Board Carpet Search

When you get an email from a place you shopped before, you sometimes look at it. Most of the time I dump them all. For whatever reason I was intrigued with the email from Room and Board. Earlier in the year we got a console for the dining room - something we haven’t had space for on Capitol Hill. Since we moved to Virginia it made for a nice addition to the 1000 square foot space. But what caught my eye was a carpet they were marketing. Our living room carpet is a solid color light blue - don’t ask me why we decided on that. Obviously it would show every mark and it does. We won’t even walk with our slippers on it to avoid any undue stress. Eventually something bad will happen. Even though we have a hand held Bissell carpet cleaner, it could get ugly. So we decided to take a look at the carpet that was being shown on the email. It was also an excuse to take a ride to Bethesda and then U Street in NW DC. My husband didn’t like the carpet at all up close. It almost looked machine made. We always had Persian carpets in our Midwest house but left all of them there because we had no room here. The trend these days is very light carpets without a lot of dark colors and patterns. In fact we turned one of our carpets upside down in the den to tone the colors down. So we looked around the store at a few more in the showroom and found one that looks fairly interesting and was within our budget. The problem is is that the size we want can’t be shipped - it requires delivery to the unit. So I called to find out if it was possible to pick it up from the warehouse somewhere. It’s not the typical carpet as it is very thin. Apparently it can be done but we haven’t made up our minds yet. The house changed to cooler tones in the living room but I much prefer the warmer colors. This might be one option to pull all the rooms back together. We will have to think on it. In the mean time I hope we can keep the existing carpet in reasonable condition.