Call Me Crazy

I just love the ReStore. Never heard of it? It is this great place where building materials can be recycled to people that want them and all the proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity. You will be hearing a lot about the ReStore. A lot of things we could not do to the house without the help of the ReStore. Find out more about the ReStore here: http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

So, Jeff and I were shopping recently at the ReStore and found a roll of turf green colored carpet. The carpet was old and obviously was pulled out of someone's house cause it was a little dusty/dirty. However, the carpet was in good shape and there was a lot of it. I asked the price and found out that it was $25.

Our idea was to make a rug. Rugs are expensive!! We had an idea of taking a piece of carpet and putting a border on it to make the rug.

When we left the ReStore, Jeff kept saying, I can't believe that we spent $25 on a used piece of carpet. I couldn't either but it was too good to pass up, I thought with a smile as we shoved it in the undersized car.

There was so much of it that we had a large area rug for the green/brown living room and a long runner for the hallway. It took me a month to find the right fabric- a brown corduroy. It probably took me another 6 months to sew up the seams and to attach it with a glue gun.

I love how it turned out though!!