Rug Drama
So there are more updates coming on the closet/ceiling fan, but we’ll shift at this moment to today’s rug drama. I’m not sure how much we’ve mentioned about our big dining room plans, but we had just that- a plan that centered on an area rug we searched high and low for that we both like and that would fit in with the space. Since the dining room is still a ways off our plan was to continue on with the work, then buy the rug when we needed it and had saved up the money for it. Nevertheless we picked out paint colors and accent colors based on it (oh yes-paint swatches in the store holding them up to the rug and everything), and incorporated them into the closet, but even more importantly we cemented in our mind how it was all going to go. Clint raised the issue a month or two ago of “what if it is discontinued?” to which I casually replied "oh, I’ll keep an eye on it and then we’d catch it on sale first which is even better!" You can see where this is going…
Fast forward to this morning when we’re discussing over email what our next step on the house is and I think to myself “I should check on that rug while I’m at it.” Pull it up online and lo and behold they only have the 4x6 left. I call Clint immediately and tell him I have bad news (which in hindsight is not a good way to set up a topic as inconsequential as a rug when you’re pregnant). After his pulse slowed considerably and he was able to get his heart out of his throat we decided on calling the local store and the 800 number to see if there were any, anywhere in stock. No luck on any of those circuits and just when I was resigned to giving up the picture of our fabulous dining room I had in my head, I thought to call the local store to see if they still had the display. They informed me it would be a 6x9 (we were looking for 8x10), but no, they did not. Reinvigorated with the possibility that some store somewhere might still have one hanging I called the next closest store: Cleveland. The lovely gentleman there was able to locate it in the back- the lone rug in the country bigger than 4x6, and ridiculously discounted because a. it was already on clearance and b. it was the “floor model” even though it was hanging. He informed me that because of all this it was non-returnable, but through my elation I didn’t care.
Of course after placing the order and coming down from that euphoria I started thinking about size. We have an old 8x10 under there now, which is plenty of room to pull the chairs out and remain on the rug. A 6x9 means we’re losing 2’ on each side, which could affect that significantly. I’m itching to head home and fold the edges of the rug we have now over to see how small this is going to be. Nonetheless it will be delivered next Thursday so we shall see. We might have just gotten ourselves a new bedroom rug which is nice, but not exactly what we had in mind. My it is pretty, though.
Fast forward to this morning when we’re discussing over email what our next step on the house is and I think to myself “I should check on that rug while I’m at it.” Pull it up online and lo and behold they only have the 4x6 left. I call Clint immediately and tell him I have bad news (which in hindsight is not a good way to set up a topic as inconsequential as a rug when you’re pregnant). After his pulse slowed considerably and he was able to get his heart out of his throat we decided on calling the local store and the 800 number to see if there were any, anywhere in stock. No luck on any of those circuits and just when I was resigned to giving up the picture of our fabulous dining room I had in my head, I thought to call the local store to see if they still had the display. They informed me it would be a 6x9 (we were looking for 8x10), but no, they did not. Reinvigorated with the possibility that some store somewhere might still have one hanging I called the next closest store: Cleveland. The lovely gentleman there was able to locate it in the back- the lone rug in the country bigger than 4x6, and ridiculously discounted because a. it was already on clearance and b. it was the “floor model” even though it was hanging. He informed me that because of all this it was non-returnable, but through my elation I didn’t care.
Of course after placing the order and coming down from that euphoria I started thinking about size. We have an old 8x10 under there now, which is plenty of room to pull the chairs out and remain on the rug. A 6x9 means we’re losing 2’ on each side, which could affect that significantly. I’m itching to head home and fold the edges of the rug we have now over to see how small this is going to be. Nonetheless it will be delivered next Thursday so we shall see. We might have just gotten ourselves a new bedroom rug which is nice, but not exactly what we had in mind. My it is pretty, though.
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