The new floor is going in. We have been eating in a carpeted dining room for a couple months now and if you want to know why my Little Green Clean Machine bit the dust, just consider 7 children eating over carpet for 3 meals a day.
Up comes the ole nasty carpet.
Prepping the subfloor which held no surprises as Paul replaced the whole subfloor several years ago after lifting the second story of our tired, sagging 100 yr old farmhouse and bracing it with a large beam.
Daniel(10) loaded the flooring from Daddy’s pickup into the nook. In the rain no less. His choice, btw. All >700lbs of it by himself, no job is too big for that little guy when he has his sights set.
We found this written in the middle of the old subfloor. How sweeeeeet…..I do not remember doing it. It just hit me that was our 10yr anniversary, Aug 7, 2003…aaaaaww.
Laying begins. Isn’t it pertty?
Danny became Master Laminate Layer after laying a good 40% of our floor himself. Daddy sat there shaking his head at that boy. Jacob was/is much happier outside exerting energy mucking the goat stalls and rabbit pen with Micah. They spent hours this afternoon making trips with the three-wheeler and trailer to the every growing compost pile.
Can’t wait to see what it looks like tonight! Any ideas for farmhouse dining room wall color?
4 comments:
Yay, the floor really look nice! I know what you mean, my mom has been saying that she would like something other then carpet in our dinning room. :) That was really sweet how you found the writing! :) My idea for paint is maybe a light red?! I don't know :P
Aleixs B
I've been trying for the longest time to convince my DH that we could lay new flooring ourselves. I'll have to use this to help my case. It looks like it's going to be fantastic. How about a red dining room, or maybe sage green?
It's funny you both said red, I was looking around the internet and Jessica and I both loved the idea of a light sage green or ruddy red for maybe the upper half of the room. ;) I love color and love the old farmhouse parlors!
CSmith, what we laid was just plain old laminate flooring with a fixed backing. We could afford a good quality for because we laid it ourselves. Danny really did install a lot of it, unsupervised, it was very simple. Paul just finished it a few minutes ago...the whole floor in 1 day. I was impressed. You CAN do it!
Wow, looks so good! I agree green or red would be really nice. I've always wanted a red kicthen.
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