Shortly after Stephanie and I moved into our apartment in San Francisco we bumped into our landlords measuring the hallways. “Yay,” we thought, they’d be replacing the ratty old carpet soon! Turns out we were right about the “replacing the carpet” part, just not the “soon.”

Come last week, while Jean-Claude and Sabine were crashing with us before flying back to France, the carpet replacement began.

Here’s how it used to look:

And here’s how it looks now (of course the natural light helps):

Yes, we’ve actually been living in a hotel.

• Our moving to San Francisco saga comes to a close
• A look inside the apartment, finally!
• Living in California without Air Conditioning
• The great San Francisco apartment hunt begins!
• How to find an apartment in San Francisco