It's About Time

Today we gave the go-ahead for the flooring guys to purchase 1500 square feet of Acacia wood flooring for our house.  

 

It will do the entire down stairs and the upstairs landing; we'll keep the carpets in the bedrooms. We're still probably 2 months out from having wood floors in our home though.

 

Its got to be ordered, then delivered, then its got to sit in the house for 2-3 weeks while it acclimatizes to this environment. Then we'll set an install date & it will take 2-3 days to get it installed.

We're having the flooring guys do it all because then it will be done, not partially done for the next 5 years or longer.

Updated photos will be provided as they come.

 

Whats going to be a bugger is moving all our furniture and stuff out of the way. We also still need to remove the existing flooring and get it entirely flat and sealed with Kilz or equivalent.

 

I'm also going to do some painting on the big walls before these are installed so I don't get any paint on them. I really want to try this with light brown/tan paint going up the stairs because the dogs have it all brown now, might as well use a color that might hide it.

Fireplace Insert

When we first looked at this home we marveled that there were 3 fireplaces; this one in the office area, the gas insert in the living area just on the other side of this one, and the wood stove in the kitchen.

 

This one got an insert yesterday. We removed this big ugly old brass cover that works great for keeping out the cold and keeping in the sparks.

 

Its a really big fireplace.

 

We have been dealing with COLD temperatures lately, it is after all, winter in Washington. Yesterday our office was 58* so we found an old insert online that works good enough for now. When I got home from work it was 75* in the office. SCORE.

 

The flooring guys were here again, they are looking for the wood we both like. We thought there would be an actual estimate for costs but they don't have that yet.

Taking Bids

We're taking bids on hardwood flooring for the whole down stairs. Right now the parquet and carpet just aren't doing it for me any longer and I want something beautiful to live with for a good long time, before we move. I DO NOT want to fix up a house just to sell it again.

 

This is the old location of the kitchen, as you can see there is a new one down there.

 

From the kitchen to the front door. It will look a lot different when the floor is new and that wall down there is removed. There will probably be tile inside the front door.

 

This closet will remain, it has a load bearing wall.

 

Getting the stairs done could cost as much as doing all of the entire down stairs.

 

The office area. Tight behind that saddle is a wood burning fireplace, I want tile in front of it.