New floor!

Since we moved into THATC, we have been longing to tear up the stained beige carpet in the living room. It wasn't very attractive, and was only good for soaking up the occasional beer spillage.

2 weeks ago I happened upon an ad on CL for 230sq ft of solid oak flooring for $50. It wasn't enough for our living room, but I can't pass up a bargain :)

After emailing, it turned out to be at Lumber Liquidators. The store manager was really helpful, and said he thought he could find us more stock to use with the oak, and create some kind of border. I thought he would try to sell us more flooring at a close to normal price, so we were pretty happy when we got there and the guy who helped us found us another end lot of 270 sq ft of teak, which he sold us for $100!

So we had enough wood to do the entire living room and passageways, but had to be a little creative about how we laid it out. After laying it out in autoCAD, we decided to use the oak to border the teak, and hoped we would have enou

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Ripping out the carpet and pad (with a million staples holding it down) then smashing up the tile (only 2 whole pieces came up) was painful. The 2 days it took us to install the wood was even more painful.

We still have to put all the furniture back, poor A-Rod has had his basement taken over. The kitchen is full of furniture, and the dining area stuffed with couches.

Madra hid in the bedroom for most of the time, with the noise of the pneumatic nailer, air compressor and chop saw, she wasn't too happy! When she did occasionally venture halfway down the stairs during quiet periods, she assumed the position of supervisor:

We are 98% done now, with just some pieces still to be face nailed in. Here is how it looks now, along with a 'before' picture which I used to give away the old carpet on CL :) A nice girl came and picked it up today! This pic is a little dark, but it's close to the colours. The teak is really beautiful, with lots of natural variation. We are pretty happy with the results.