Orange Floors

We finally got the flooring to replace our dreaded dining room carpet. The carpet actually wasn't all that bad (we did have it cleaned after all), but having your dining room table over carpet is just wrong in so many ways! Needless to say, in the last two months, most our family dinners have been at the tiny tables in the kitchen.

We found some cheaper flooring that we both liked for .99 cents a sf at Home Depot. From our moving, I had collected 4 coupons from Lowes for $10 off a $50 purchase, and several 10% off coupons. 2 boxes of flooring cost $51 and change. We bought the 6 boxes of flooring in 3 separate orders and the liner for underneath the flooring separate as well (2 rolls also totaled a little over $50). Each time we used a coupon making our $200 purchase only $160. Off to a good start!

Ronnie came by to help (my nephew was selling his pig that day so the rest of the family had prior engagements) and once he and Cliff figured out a pattern to lay the floor so it would 'look pretty' they got it in pretty fast. Since I would of just been in the way I set to finish (or at least mostly finish) painting the guest bathroom. The colors are wrong, but it works for now. Since we had the wrong saw (and Cliff and Ronnie had a dining room chair double as a saw table) Dad stopped by to bring us the right one, but unfortunately we didn't answer his phone calls so he brought one we didn't need.

Unfortunately, Home Depot didn't have the parts to join the dining room to the carpeted living room, or the tiled kitchen so those are waiting for another day. Also, we need the proper nails to get our base boards back on so they are also waiting to be finished.  It is still a huge improvement from what it was!

Ronnie made it home for dinner so Cliff and I set about tackling the hideous orange monstrosity in our entry way. We ran out of paint before we got the whole way up but I'm so glad we made changing it a priority!


More pictures of all the changes (and proof that Ronnie contributed).