Went over to Doyce and Kate’s last evening to join them in dinner with Doyce’s parents. They’ve been doing the reflooring thing, replacing all the front room and family room floor with wood, similar to what we did (on a much smaller scale) with the craft room.
Looks faboo, and strengthens in me a desire to get rid of our downstairs carpeting. Soon. Really soon. Well, maybe after the landscaping in front, but definitely soonish after that.
Really.
Truly.
Soon.
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I don’t envy you the ‘tricky’ parts of those rooms. You have a lot of odd corners, and that… is not fun.
The last three rows of planks around the fireplace took Dad and me… 3 and a half hours.
Getting the flooring set into the doorway for the stairs was two hours… for a 6″ by 30″ space.
Amazing how fast it goes in open and/or simple spaces, though. Can’t way to do the downstairs library and my office.
Yeah, when it’s flat and open, it just seems to grow like Topsy. When there are corners, vents, odd inside wall things, it’s a much tricker proposition.
The plan with the ground floor is some sort of slate or other non-wood surface, so it’s going to be a different proposition. May also spend the bucks to let someone do it, rather than tackling it on our own. We’ll see.
Front yard first, though. Then we need to resolve the internal debate of carpet vs bathrooms.
Carpet vs bathrooms?
I’d rather have bathrooms.
Our dog makes no distinctions between the two.
Ha.
The question for us being whether to replace the carpet downstairs in general, or redocorate (including removing carpet for two of them) from the bathrooms.
Ummmm . . .. never, ever, ever, tolerate carpet in a bathroom. Not only is this mindnumbingly unhygenic . . .it also gives the plumbing a chance to leak, rot floorboards, cause mold and do it all without you ever being aware of it!
Sorry, that’s the Property Manager in me coming out . .. it’s like being a Werewolf, but not as cool and involving a lot more sales training . .. .