New Floors

Well kids as you know Rita has decided that the dining room floor is her place to use for a bathroom.  The smell got so bad that we decided that we would cut out two main strips of the carpet and just leave the bare wood for now...while at first that seemed to help with the smell it didn't stop Rita and then the smell got worse.  It was at the point that when we sat in the family room we could still smell it.

We decided that we would change it out and we had intentions of putting laminates in.  I thought that with the help of the boys we could do this on our own and it would be cheaper.  Well again we talked to several companies and looked at the retail stores and decided that we wanted to go with hardwoods instead.  You may have seen the commercials for "50floors" on TV and that is who we used.  So far we are very pleased with it.

Of course this meant yet another big mess in the house and a severe outbreak of OCD. 

Black felt under the wood to reduce the noise

 

They did a good job alternating the size boards and the seams

Before

 

After

As you can see we left the front hallway with the original hardwoods which are a lighter color...I was a little hesitant about this but your mother thought it would look good.  Once it was done I was sure that I was right and we should have done the hall too but now that it has been done for a couple weeks I am getting used to it and I'm at the 70/30 mark now that it looks ok.  Everyone that has seen it says that they like it the way it is so they are either being very polite or they are great liars!

 

Anyway that is it for the remodeling...we have to do some painting where the new stuff didn't quite line up with the old stuff along with the front railings.  Once those things are done it's back to the couch for the winter!!