How do you spell excitement? Carpet Installation!

Yes, our new carpet is finally installed in the house. After months of deciding "should we or shouldn't we," we finally ordered the carpet a couple of weeks ago and it was finally installed over two LONG days last Friday and this Monday. We had the dining room, study, 3 bedrooms upstairs and the stairs and hallway replaced.

After hauling all the furniture from one room to the next and back, we are glad to have this project behind us. Plus, I never knew carpet installation could be so messy! Perhaps it is the carpet, we replaced the old berber with a new frieze style. It looks great, but their are tiny shreds of the frieze everywhere.

So here is our dilemma. The installer was great. Very polite and talkative - father of 2 small girls the same age as Carter and Logan. He worked his tail off and probably lost about 5 lbs of sweat in our house. However, he also left dozens of scratches and marks on the paint on all four walls of our master bedroom. I understand that the red, flat paint is very prone to marks....but it was a pain having to go back and re-paint all the walls. So do we call Home Depot and complain....knowing that it may indirectly hurt this nice guy's future contracting assignments with them, or just let it go. Thoughts? My vote is let it go and move on.....

Dining Room Before (left) and After (right):


All the junk from the boys bedrooms stacked in our master bedroom: