Laminate flooring has come a great distance within the final 10 years, and after 5 years of dwelling with outdated, dingy flooring and 20-year-old carpet, we lastly put in laminate on our first flooring! These pictures are just some days after the contractors left so the home continues to be in cleanup mode. However we’re SO in love with our new flooring and wow, this venture is the sport changer!
We waited 5 years primarily as a result of, effectively, life occurred. Between 2 weddings, paying for school, we’ve been thrifting and saving to get to this place. We additionally massively downsized our extra stuff. We flipped a home just lately, too, and I left my company job and began a enterprise that’s lastly thriving. And thru all of it, my husband has been killing it at work. We’ve labored so arduous, and it feels good to deal with house tasks that we are able to personally take pleasure in.
BEFORE PHOTOS
Listed below are among the itemizing pictures of the home, you may take the full home tour right here.
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Lobby, earlier than
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Earlier than, eating room (itemizing picture)
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BEFORE: Kitchen itemizing picture
The laminate flooring we selected is named Earthen Chestnut, the Uncommon Classic Line by Mohawk. It isn’t offered in large field shops, so that you’d should go to a neighborhood flooring supplier and haggle on value a bit. We landed on a value round $2.60/sq. foot for round 1200 sq. toes (excluding labor).
We love the natural-looking hand-hewn end and the variation of colour. Consider it or not, this wasn’t our first selection. We have been on a little bit of a wild goose chase on the lookout for flooring that “wowed” us however was nonetheless in our value level. Our first selection was discontinued, so although this flooring was our second selection, we really feel prefer it was meant to be and are SO proud of it.
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I captured a couple of pictures throughout our first sunny day which reveals the true colours of the ground.
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Some paint and trim updates are wanted, however love how this all seems.
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Oliver approves.
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A kitchen redesign is in progress and we might change the colour of the cupboards. New flooring have been the first step earlier than we construct a model new island (extra on that quickly!) Cove trim was put in across the base cupboards which must be painted sooner or later.
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Love the pure hand hewn texture. The contractor put in 5″ baseboards. We’re deciding if cove trim needs to be put in.
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Darkish flooring can simply be maintained and cleaned with a Roomba, so in the event you’re fearful about it displaying grime, that’s our suggestion. Personally I might quite see the grime and maintain a clear home, versus selecting a flooring that hides grime.
I’ve been reluctant to share something new on my weblog these previous few years as a result of our outdated flooring was such an eyesore and impacted all of our design selections. The lesson is – don’t be like us. Whenever you buy a house that’s in dire want of a flooring replace, in the event you can, have your new flooring put in instantly after you shut on the home!
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