Hardwood floors!

In beginning of November we started our hardwood floor installation adventure!  We had decided we were sick and tired of the yucky wall to wall carpeting in our family room and office.  After researching locally and online we decided to do the job ourselves (with the expert help of my dad!) and to order our floor online.  We also wanted to paint the walls so that was step one.  The family room got painted a very light sunny neutral and the ceiling turned white.  This was a huge improvement to the room since previously the walls AND ceiling had been a milk chocolate brown (see similar situation with dining room paint post).

Prepping the floors was a huge job, especially scrapping off glue residue on the floor from the carpet pad.  Lots of elbow grease to scrape, caulk  and patch.

 17 boxes of engineered hardwood flooring "acclimating" to it's new home.

The office.

 

We had a good system in the division of labor:  Emma=glue spreader, Ryan=board selector/pattern puzzler, my dad=board cutter and my mom=baseboard engineer, child coordinator and food/snack chef.

 Ta da!  Here is the finished family room with repainted walls and new hardwood flooring.  Yay!