Yea!!! Our floors are done!!!! So we decided to go ahead and get rid of the carpet. It is something Peter has wanted to do for a few years and it has just taken him that long to convince me it was the right move. I am sure glad we did it. They turned out great! We started in September with the living room remodel and are almost done. We painted the trim around all the doors in the living room and down the hallway. Then the next weekend we painted the rest of the walls, which was something I have wanted to do for a few years. We went with tawny birch, a taupe/tan color and then freshened up the blue. Unfortunately we threw away the can from 5 years ago so we had to wing it on the color and it came pretty close. It is a little more blue, but hey we still like it.
We took a weekend off to go to my cousins wedding and then came the most challenging part for us....tearing up the carpet. Wow, I didn't realize what a job that was going to be. It took us an entire day to get the carpet out of the living room and hallway. The floors didn't look too bad underneath. We have no idea how long they have been covered and really no idea how long they have been there. It was a job and as soon as the carpet was gone I immediately noticed a difference in the smell of my house! No more animal smell!!!!
The following weekend a family friend came and started sanding on Thursday. You should have seen the guest room. It looked like a hurricane hit it. Now for those of you who know me well, that is 4 weeks of chaos in my house with things off the walls and not in its correct places and not cleaning and ugh!!! It has been a mess and I have been dealing with it pretty well. We came home from Chicago and Peter and I had to look. Sunday we had to spend the night at Katie's to give it one more full day to set so Sunday after Nora went to bed we came to the house and shined the car lights in and opened the front door and AMAZING!!! It turned out so great....the walls, baseboards, color, all of it.
Know we are slowly working on getting everything back in order. I have had conferences all week and Peter is working major overtime, so as hard as it is to still be living in chaos I am...it will get there...just in time for me to take everything down again and put christmas up!
Heres to new floors!
