Laminate flooring has come a good distance within the final 10 years, and after 5 years of dwelling with outdated, dingy flooring and 20-year-old carpet, we lastly put in laminate on our first flooring! These images 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 undertaking 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 exhausting, and it feels good to give attention to dwelling tasks that we are able to personally take pleasure in.
BEFORE PHOTOS
Listed here are a number of the itemizing images 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 photograph)
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BEFORE: Kitchen itemizing photograph
The laminate flooring we selected known as Earthen Chestnut, the Uncommon Classic Line by Mohawk. It isn’t offered in massive field shops, so that you’d should go to an area flooring vendor and haggle on worth a bit. We landed on a worth 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. Imagine it or not, this wasn’t our first selection. We have been on a little bit of a wild goose chase searching for flooring that “wowed” us however was nonetheless in our worth level. Our first selection was discontinued, so though this flooring was our second selection, we really feel prefer it was meant to be and are SO pleased with it.
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I captured just a few images throughout our first sunny day which exhibits the true colours of the ground.
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Some paint and trim updates are wanted, however love how this all appears to be like.
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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 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 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 nervous about it exhibiting filth, that’s our advice. Personally I’d quite see the filth and maintain a clear home, versus selecting a flooring that hides filth.
I’ve been reluctant to share something new on my weblog these previous couple of 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. If 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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