So for those of you who haven’t been to our place before, the carpet was in pretty bad condition – it was already in pretty bad shape when we moved in, but with a kiddo and 3 dogs, it got even worse. Needless to say, it really wasn’t the ideal baby-friendly surface.
So we decided to put in hardwoods… easier to clean, much better for the baby, and also a nice boost to value when we move in a few years… We checked around and found out it was pretty darned expensive to get installed… So i talked to Dad and we figured we could do it ourselves…
It ended up taking 3 weeks to finish up… it was a MUCH more difficult project that either of us anticipated… but now that it’s done, it’s amazing. It actually makes the downstairs look a lot bigger…
here’s where we started pulling up the carpet…
and with all the padding gone and glue scraped up (still day one, but already with a giant blister on my thumb)
we put the tv and electronics in Jordin’s room, and the rest of the furniture on the patio – which wasn’t very well thought through, cause that’s also where we cut the boards, so everything was COVERED in sawdust…
close to the end of day one – a good portion already laid
the doorway from h-e-double-hockey-sticks… overall, we probably spent about 5 or 6 hours just on that little doorway area – between crooked walls and messed up doorjambs, it took forever to get it right…
But after weeks of laying floor planks and putting in new baseboards and installing carpet-to-floor transition pieces… and getting new bookshelves and a new dining room table… we’ve got a much better looking (and more baby friendly) downstairs…
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