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You can get free carpet samples at your local supplier or online (ours are from Philadelphia Commercial).

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We’re about to install carpet in both of our offices and the master bedroom, so the carpet scraps we used were the samples for that. We already had the plywood, so if you don’t have scraps laying around, estimate another $10 or so in material costs.

Carpet samples or cork board for your cushioned surface.

1 piece of brass carpet trim (it’s actually bronze-colored aluminum).

Given that we always have scrap wood laying around, and SVV is not lacking for tools, it just took one quick, no-contact run to Lowe’s for the remaining materials. SVV had been saying for the past year that we needed to build a dog ramp, then last week, we saw a friend on Facebook doing something similar for her senior dog and immediately dropped everything and followed suit. So we decided quarantine was the time to fix that. It’s exhausting, being subjected to the whims of a tiny, bossy dictator.

Which means, she’s constantly barking at SVV and me, her slaves, to put her up or take her back down. That single stair that goes down to the great room we use for everything? Ella still won’t go down it. Other than the front entrance and the patio and garage stairs, the only interior step is this one right here. I mean, she’s our child and top priority-we’ve got to be looking out for her, right? So the Cedar House seemed like a perfect fit from every angle. We wanted a single story both for our own ease, but also mainly for Ella’s. I’m not going to lie: When we started looking at houses 18 months ago, one of the parameters was a ranch-style home. She’s fine darting up and down our back patio and garage stairs, go figure, but it’s likely just because she has slightly more traction beneath her. This gave her a complex, a bit of stairs PTSD if you will, and made her no longer want to go up and down them, at least indoors.

Still, Ella’s always been an athlete, but a couple times while living at the Victorian, her furry paws caused her take a tumble on our back stairs as she transitioned from the carpeted last stair to the unforgiving hardwood. I can’t imagine someone operating on her fragile joints. I mean, have you seen Ella? She weighs less than seven pounds, and her bones are the size of a chicken’s. We did get a second opinion via an orthopedic surgeon for dogs to whom our vet referred us, but she also recommend against surgery. Though we do give her plenty of CBD treats, just in case. Her vet regularly monitors it and said unless it seems to be hurting her, then we should just let it be. Why can’t she just use stairs, you may ask? Ella, while almost 10, has the pep in her step of a much more youthful pup, but she’s also been plagued with a shaky knee that slides in and out of socket for much of her adult life.

So when better to build a dog ramp for Ella than in the midst of a crisis forcing us to stay at home? And since it’s been raining for 40 days and 40 nights-or more like 400-here in Tennessee, we’ve been doing all the indoor projects we can until things dry up.

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Guys, it’s come to this: We’ve reached the end of the Internet, our TV and movie queues are dwindling, I’ve read several books, we’ve completely organized our garage and I’ve started to paint again.

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