Twenty Four Boxes

We are the proud owners of 24 (count 'em) boxes of laminate flooring.  They're spread out between the dining room and study, "acclimating" to our house.  We also brought home three boxes of porcelain tile for the entry-way.

If it wasn't so dark, and I wasn't completely exhausted, I would post a photo or three.  But our 5:30 am wake-up call is catching up with me.  In addition to our demo/reno project, we also had our annual garage sale today.   While it was a lot of work, we made enough to cover nearly half of the cost of our project.  Well worth getting up before dawn!

We'll be back tomorrow with some "before" shots.

After coffee.  Lots of coffee.

Coming Soon...New Floors!

Finally...we're getting ready to tear out the carpet in the living room, dining room, study and hallway.

It's been four years, eight months, and two days since we closed on the house (not that I'm counting...) and I've hated that carpet every.  single.  day.

Your days are numbered, icky carpet.  If all goes according to plan (like that's a real possibility) we should be able to start within the next couple of weeks.

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A few years ago we gave the kitchen/breakfast room a facelift and installed laminate flooring.  It has held up extremely well, even with the dogs, and we're looking forward to continuing the laminate through the other living areas of the house.  

It will be messy.  It will be dirty.  And it will get very, very ugly before we're finished.

I'm counting the days...