We Have Flooring!!!!

Wow! Thanksgiving came and went fast. I would post pictures, but I can't figure out how to get my sisters pictures into my file to put onto here without them being thumbnail size. In other words, they are itty bitty. So.........I'll post pictures of my flooring progress. BTW, we had a very nice Turkey Day.

O.K. In my last post about my flooring saga, we were in the process of removing the old underlayment bit by bit because of the millions of staples. Well, we thought we'd be done with it by Thanksgiving. By done I mean completely done. Tile complete. But we're not even close because the underlayment is so hard to get up. It's really very time consuming. And a royal pain in the YooHoo, if you catch my drift. So I told Flyboy that we should put a hold on the tile and at least get the laminate done in the living room so that we can put up our Christmas tree. Then we can go back to working on the tile. So thats what we have been working on. Here is our progress over the last 5 days.

Here, we have removed the old carpet and now have a bare floor.

Another view of the living room with the new bare floor.

Here is our dining room piled high with our living room furniture. We had to put it somewhere. And yes, 5 days later, it is still there.

Using my mothers advice, I painted Kilz over the floor to hopefully cover the pet odor. Remember, the whole reason we are putting down laminate, is because we have German Shepherds. One of which likes to vomit on the carpet almost every other day. It will be much easier to clean off the laminate. When you have dogs, you have to make certain sacrifices. And we refuse to make our dogs stay outside all the time so out goes the carpet, in comes the laminate.

Here we go! Here is the first roll of foam underlayment.

And the first row of laminate. Flyboy is doing such a great job!

He's making pretty good progress here. Notice the red wall?

The red wall is now sage green. Isn't it pretty? I loved the red, but the green is a softer, more neutral color. And it really brings out the green in my Thomas Kinkade picture!

The room is almost complete. This is what's left to do. Isn't it pretty! I love progress!