Laminate flooring has come a good distance within the final 10 years, and after 5 years of dwelling with outdated, dingy flooring and 20-year-old carpet, we lastly put in laminate on our first ground! These photographs 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 faculty, 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 exhausting, and it feels good to deal with dwelling initiatives that we are able to personally take pleasure in.
BEFORE PHOTOS
Listed here are a number of the itemizing photographs of the home, you possibly can take the full home tour right here.
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Lobby, earlier than
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Earlier than, eating room (itemizing photograph)
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BEFORE: Kitchen itemizing photograph
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 need to 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 coloration. Consider it or not, this wasn’t our first alternative. We had been on a little bit of a wild goose chase searching for flooring that “wowed” us however was nonetheless in our value level. Our first alternative was discontinued, so although this flooring was our second alternative, we really feel prefer it was meant to be and are SO proud of it.
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I captured a couple of photographs 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 to be.
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Oliver approves. 🙂
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A kitchen redesign is in progress and we could change the colour of the cupboards. New flooring had 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 ought to be put in.
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Darkish flooring can simply be maintained and cleaned with a Roomba, so for those who’re anxious about it displaying filth, that’s our advice. Personally I might reasonably see the filth and preserve a clear home, versus selecting a ground that hides filth.
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. Once you buy a house that’s in dire want of a flooring replace, for those who can, have your new flooring put in instantly after you shut on the home!
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