Phase II: FLOORS!

(This will be boring to most of you, but I want to document this for my family!) Brad and I had gone back and forth for a while trying to decide what we wanted to do with our filthy carpet downstairs. (It's upstairs as well, but we are only replacing the downstairs floors at this time...unless, in the next few weeks a money tree begins to grow out back!) Originally, we thought it would be best to just replace the old carpet with new carpet and leave all the tile in the entry and hallways. I have always loved and wanted real, hand-scraped, wood floors, but I knew those came with a hefty price tag and were probably way out of our designated "floor budget!" Much to our surprise, we found a place that our good friends had recently used, and were able to get an incredible deal on the floors I have always dreamed of having! The process was long (about 2 weeks!) and the mess was enormous (and still is!) but I love the finished product!

This is what my kitchen looked like for almost 2 weeks.

They had to tape off everything because of the dust from jackhammering the tile!

The playroom full of tools!

After the first day, we had a base floor...

and more dust than I care to talk about.

Soon, they had the floors put down. These had to settle for a solid week before they came back to scrape and stain them. This means living in dust and chaos until they returned!

more raw wood

after the first day of scraping and staining

They are finally finished!

No rugs are put down yet and cannot be for another couple of weeks.

It was a long two weeks and we are still coming out from under the dust and clutter, but I think I am going to love the new floors! I highly recommend the company we used and would be happy to give out their info if you are ever in need of floor advice!