Look!
That there is my new kitchen floor going down. Finally. Fiiiiiiiinally. (Insert big huge ridiculously silly happy dance HERE.) It’s amazing how the rush to get your house listed for spring (aka prime house-selling season) will suddenly move any much-deliberated but never-initiated projects into fast-forward mode. Yep – two and a half years of griping about our ugly kitchen floor (and much ongoing debate over what to replace it with) later, and we’re finally making ‘er pretty.
Progress rocks. :)
Sweetie removed all the quarter round for me last weekend…
And then I patched the icky holes in the old peel and stick tiles…
And then floor-laying officially began! I started yesterday with this…
Which then grew into this…
And then eventually became this (much later in the day and under ugly artificial light)…
I finally called it a night when I had enough flooring down that I could move the appliances back into place.
If you’ve been following my (ongoing) floor drama at all, you might notice that this isn’t the floor I originally wanted. Like, at all. I had big lovely hickory-look flooring plans. However all that quickly changed when I found a batch of flooring on clearance. Yep – I went cheap and cheerful on my resale-bound floor. Regularly $47 per box (with each box covering 24 square feet) I found four boxes of this particular floor (Allure’s Resilient Flooring in Patina) in Home Depot’s clearance pile for $30 each. And even after supplementing my clearance boxes with one additional box at full price (since four boxes would have given me exactly enough to do the floor without any extra for errors or weird cuts or things like that) the whole floor will cost about $170 in the end (plus a whole lot of elbow grease), which seems pretty darn reasonable, if you ask me! It’s not exactly what I wanted (and if we were planning to stay in this house, I would have committed to my beloved, but pricier, hickory-look floor) but for resale? It’ll do. :)
Assuming I give it a good solid effort, I’ll likely (hopefully!) have the rest of the floor down today. While it’s not quite as easy to put down as the good folk at Allure would like you to believe, it’s not particularly difficult either. It’s just time consuming. And a little finicky when it comes to making sure the seams are all tight.
Looking very (very!) forward to finally (finally!!!) checking “make kitchen floor look much much prettier and way less blue” off my to-do list. Next pre-listing project in line: countertops. :)
Hi. Just a bystander here. Just wanted you to know I am sad you didn’t get your beloved hickory. I actually like the Patina Tile, but after reading a large number of your posts, I was sad you didn’t get what you want. I hope all is well.
Tammy
Hi Tammy! Thank you!!! I’m sad too! LOL. But I agree – the Patina tile does look quite good (I like it a lot actually!) And I’ve decided that this all just means that the hickory-look floor I reeeally want is destined for my NEXT (soon-to-be-purchased!) house. :)
Don’t make yourself wait this time! Why change the floor right before you move when you could do it when you move in? (Says the girl with the ugliest yellow floor ever.)
That sounds like a great plan to me! Although it’d be even awesome-er if our next house has a normal, non-weird-coloured floor to start with! (Since we tend to buy fixer-uppers, that’s doubtful, but I can always hope!) And booo to your yellow floor (although, in my head, yellow sounds sorta cute!) If you’re looking for a nice-looking and simple (-ish) to install floor, might I suggest Allure’s hickory-look flooring? ;) (Allure should totalllly be paying me for this, eh? LOL.)