THE FLOORS ARE DONE! HECK YEAH!

Did I mention that we moved here nearly 10 years ago?  Did I mention that when we moved in, the kitchen floor looked like this:

Did I mention that we've lived here nearly 10 years and our kitchen floor looks like this now:

Yes, 10 YEARS!  I guess all that work on the outbuildings was more important. This is how the previous owners left the floor and we just never did anything about it.  Covered it up with a rug.

I know.

But we finally took the plunge. It was time.  It was 10 years of the followup comment to anything Bob wanted to do on the barn. For example Bob would say,  "I'm thinking we should build a deck on the barn," and I would come back with "Perhaps we could have the floors done in the house."

10 YEARS, people!!

We asked our good friend Justin to do the install.  This is a good thing.  Bob believes he could've done a great job, I know he would try, but I just felt more comfortable having someone professional do it. And if you've ever seen Bob's handiwork, you would agree.  I love you honey but...Phew!!

When Justin and I went shopping at Home Depot I took my dear sweet time looking at every different flooring option available.  Thank goodness Justin is a very patient man, I think I took 5 hours to decide.  Ok, it was only about an hour.  But of course, when I settled on the color I liked, they had none in stock, so I took a sample piece home and ordered online.  Funny part is - the tile looked just about as close to the original wood on the floor!  I guess staring at it for 10 years, you get comfortable with it.

So Justin stopped by early one day a couple weeks ago and got started.  He was so fast that I didn't get a picture of the entryway floor and all the broken linoleum tile in there, but here is where he had it all pulled up:

I thought it looked pretty cool like that and my creative mind started getting all excited and wanted to put down some kind of heavy polyurethane on it, ya know like the do to bar tops?  Then I slapped myself hard in the face.

Next was the tile:

Then that night I came home to find it half done:

Oh so beautiful!!

and here's the finished product:

Yeehaaa!  Now my kitchen cabinets need to have something done to them.  I think they were made of plywood, not sure but they don't look too good and shabby sheik is not really in style anymore.  Hmmmm….

Focus!  Focus!

Next: the living room floor!