Laminate flooring has come a good distance within the final 10 years, and after 5 years of residing with previous, dingy flooring and 20-year-old carpet, we lastly put in laminate on our first ground! These images are only a few days after the contractors left so the home remains 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, properly, 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 lately, too, and I left my corporate job and started a business that’s lastly thriving. And thru all of it, my husband has been killing it at work. We’ve labored so laborious, and it feels good to deal with house 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 possibly can take the full house tour 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 Rare Vintage Line by Mohawk. It isn’t bought in huge field shops, so that you’d must go to an area flooring vendor 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 colour. 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 regardless that this flooring was our second alternative, we really feel prefer it was meant to be and are SO pleased with it.
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I captured a number of 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 might 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 in some unspecified time in the future.
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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 when you’re anxious about it displaying filth, that’s our advice. Personally I’d reasonably see the filth and hold a clear home, versus selecting a ground that hides filth.
I’ve been reluctant to share something new on my weblog these previous couple of years as a result of our previous 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, when you can, have your new flooring put in instantly after you shut on the home!
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