How are you getting rid of the popcorn ceilings?
Did you talk them into removing ALL of the carpet?? It’s ugly…and green.
On a related note–at Home Depot the other day, I noted they STILL sell the stuff to make popcorn ceilings, for folks who want to do so!
Egads!! That carpet loooks awful and is a health hazard.
I talked them into removing the bright brass vanity lights out of hall bathroom
They insisted on keeping green carpet in bedrooms but at least i cut it out of the bathrooms!! Then they wanted me to keep the pieces in case someone wanted them:) are you kidding? Used bathroom carpet?
I hope the carpet is at least wool.
That carpet looks like junk. Maybe paint will seep through and accidentally damage it. I can understand why they might want carpet in the bedrooms…but THAT carpet? Is it in good conditions?
It sounds like they’re reeeeeeeeeeally frugal.
Given the age of that carpet, I suspect that if you pull up a piece in a busy location, it will be so disgusting that they will want it out of there. Recent experience talking…
The pad under that carpet probably needs to be declared a biohazard. Dirt, mold, whatnot! Shampooing the carpets only goes so far. The pad itself could be on the last legs!
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Yeah, but still. It’s their house. Money may be an issue.
All of those valances are horrible. The lace one is actually the LEAST horrible, IMHO.
I, unlike @thumper1 --as we have discussed before, LOL–love green, but that carpet is horrible. Gotta go.
Horrible is apparently the word of the moment, LOL!
I’d want to know the age of that carpet…and whether there were any animal or babies that lived there. When we bought our first house…we replaced ALL of the floors. It never crossed our mind to keep,the carpet…and it wasn’t old.
Our carpet was 7 years old and fancy. We ripped it out because the house was rented to god knows what kind of party people. The kitchen was barely used but there were some strange stains on the bedroom floor. I was not in the mood to run a DNA analysis of those. We let the “paint crew” aka BB trample all over it and then replaced it. 
I would never do a lace valance but the apple pattern does have a certain kind of charm. It might be interesting to save a section and put it into a frame with a dark color under it - or maybe apple red!
We have NO curtains in our open kitchen, eating area, and family room.
BUT…we do have lace valances in our LR and DR. Really, they look great with our decor.
I think that lace valance could look perfectly nice in another location. I just happen to have a prejudice against any kind of valance above a kitchen sink. The puffy ones, on the other hand…
I have some window things that I had made for our last house in CT, which was a colonial era post and beam in very original condition. They looked great in that house. They don’t fit the windows in this house, unfortunately. (Almost nothing fits the over-sized windows here.) I keep hoping to figure something out.
Maybe the daughter can get them a housewarming gift of a kitchen valance?
This morning the wallpaper team asked my guys to remove the toilet so they could get behind the dang toilet to get the wallpaper off. I made an executive decision to throw the toilet in the dumpster. I cannot imagine that someone wants us to re install an ancient water hogging low toilet that someone else has used for 30 years. We then realized that the other toilet had to be torn out in order to tile the bathroom floor. Into the dumpster
After throwing into the dumpster I innocently called the owner to ask about it and he said “OK … I want new Toto toilets anyway” First… he never mentioned that in the scope of work or my estimate and second… this is coming from a man whose wife wants to save the green carpet out of the bathrooms???
He joked… don’t tell my wife… she’ll want to try to save those toilets for some reason