One of the "mistakes" we made when we remodeled the house was to put very nice carpeting on the stairs leading down to the lower level.
Why, you say? Because those stairs not only lead to the downstairs wreck room (it wasn't supposed to be that way) and the dog room. Well, I am sure the dogs didn't know it was a fine wool carpet because over the last ten years they have made multiple deposits of various 'doggy' effluent on the carpeting. Yuck!
Two weeks ago, the carpet was removed and I had Brazilian cherrywood stairs installed to match the living room. Well, broke my heart watching Shawna do a faceplant a the bottom of the stairs her first time down. Ouch!
It also made my heart (and nose) soar when I realized the 'doggy odor' was gone from the house! hallelujah!
This week, I had a simple industrial indoor/outdoor carpet runner installed. This gives the dogs the solid footing they need and when they are gone, I can remove it and the glorious cherrywood will be visible.
OK, bottom line is that I had a real tough time with this. Why? Because this was the first real change to the way Mary had designed and decorated the house. The TV thing I did before was simply swapping one TV for another. This was truly changing something we had talked about and she was firm about the carpeting for the ease of the dogs up and down the stairs in spite of the olfactory problem it created.
But it is done now and the dogs are easily navigating up and down the stairs and the house smells springtime fresh! (Well, except for the used baggie from last Monday's fish I forgot to throw out and well...it took a few days...)
Ciao!
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