New Floor in the Front Room!

Guess what?  The floor in the front room (soon to be Chris's office) are finished too!  Are you ready for some more before and after?  Before:

 
After:

Much better!  The next step will be tearing down that terrible wallpaper so that Chris can paint his new office a bright, cheerful grey!  I'm not joking, grey is the color he has chosen for his new room.  Ah well, to each his own.

New Floors In My Office!

After a brief side project in the kitchen (aka our new door), it's back to the new upstairs floor.  My office is next on the list.  Here are some before shots.

I definitely needed a new floor in there, am I right?  Well, Uncle Don was over yesterday to work his magic!  Here's my new floor!

Pretty amazing, right?  I can't believe what a difference a new floor can make!  I can't wait to start moving furniture around and hanging some art.  I've got big plans to make better use of my workspace and some decorative ideas as well.  But that will have to wait until the floor in Chris's office is finished, because all the stuff we've been shifting from room to room will have to be moved back in here for a time.  It's a bit of a hassle, but it will be so worth it in the end.

New Floors - part 2

The flooring installation has begun!  It was a bit of a hassle because we had to move everything out of the art room and try to make room for it in the other rooms, but it was totally worth it! Check out the pictures below:

So much clutter - do you think I am a hoarder?

Looks like this room has been through a lot of color changes.

Part of an old vintage Bon Ton advertisement.

This squeaky board was created when the kitchen light was installed.

Uncle Don put down padding first to make the old floor less noisy.

Next came the actual floor boards.

It looks pretty amazing!

The rest can't be installed until we pull up the carpet in my office.

Morgaine and Mako aren't sure how they feel about the new floor.

Surprise Hardwood Floor

So the other day, while Chris and I were at work, Aunt Candy and Uncle Don came over and took up the carpet in the playroom.  It was pretty much ruined with stains from the bathroom project and also from my cat (she, for some reason, took offense to the carpet in that room and used it as her litter box).  So I was pretty excited when they called me at work to let me know it was gone.  I was even more excited to hear that there was, in fact, a hardwood floor underneath.  I was not so excited to hear that it was in pretty bad shape.


When I got home, this is the sight that awaited me:

You may be thinking "oh, that's not so bad," which is exactly the first thing I thought.  But then I gave it a closer look and found:

This 1960s era newspaper clipping painted to the floor (there are a few of these).

This rickety middle section of the floor (so that's why there was a dip in the carpet).

 

This metal place covering a hole for an old heat vent.

This huge gouge.

This metal plate covering the hole for (what I assume was) the old chimney.

All in all, it is a bit of a disaster.  The plan is to put down a new floor with vinyl or flooring, but I am not so sure.  Part of me, an unrealistically ambitious part of me, wants to try and refinish this floor.  I don't even know how to refinish a floor, but it can't be that hard.  Ha ha.  What do you think?

But I already love the difference not having carpet in there has made.  It is taking every ounce of my restraint to not remove it from the rest of the rooms upstairs.  I mean, if there are hardwood floors under the carpet in one room, it's probably like that in all the rooms, right?

Also, if you are bored, go ahead and play Spot The Intrusive Cats with the pictures in this post.  I'll give you a hint:  there are cat parts in 50% of these photos.

Storage Ottoman

We have been talking about buying a storage ottoman since we moved in ALMOST A YEAR AGO and yesterday we finally got around to doing it.  Mako is very pleased by our decision.

He climbed right on as soon as we brought it in the house and hasn't moved since - even when I pushed it around the room trying to find the best place.  I'm glad he likes his new bed.