Hello, hello everyone. This is Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquell Press, and I'm here to give you

another episode of The Weekender, a mini episode to help you end your week on the right note.

Whenever I buy a house, I never buy one that's turnkey ready to go.

I like to put my own designs in it.

So whenever I move, I usually bring along a sledgehammer, my power tools, and gallons and gallons of paint.

And when I moved into my current home, I gutted a bathroom, I did a sizable facelift on the kitchen,

restored the fireplace,

and painted 45 gallons of paint, interior only.

And because building and renovating is one of my true passions in life,

John and I do all the work ourselves.

Plus, quite frankly, we live on a budget budget just like most of you do, and that allows

us to stretch that budget even further. Well, as you can imagine, I didn't have the bandwidth to do

everything I dreamed of doing in this house. Some projects were a bigger priority, like the kitchen,

so they got tackled first. And the carpet in my home when I moved in was not great,

but it wasn't so bad that it topped the list. And so I'd lived with this cream carpet, or at least it

was supposed to be cream, for several years. Every time I looked at it, when we first moved in,

it drove me crazy. I hated it. But then I'd look at my

kitchen and I'd forget all about the ugly carpet. And then something happened. I stopped thinking

about the carpet. There was always a bigger project to tackle, a higher priority to work on,

and I stopped noticing it. I walked on it every day for four years,

most days without even giving it a second thought. Until about six months ago, that carpet suddenly

caught my eye one day. It might have been that I was doing downward dog and couldn't help but

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