Connect Floor

The title may be a bit of a stretch. I've done so many posts on flooring now, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything clever. So in that vein, here's another!

The underlayment went in pretty easily. We tacked it down all around, which we won't be doing in the future. The reason is that it seems to start bubbling and crumpling and stuff on us when we do that. What we're going to do from now on is to lay it out, cut it a little long, and tack it at the end of the room where we're starting. As we go, we'll push the excess out and eventually just cut it off of the end. That should resolve some issues, hopefully.

Not sure what we're doing here, but I'm sure we're working hard.

Confirming that our guides are square.

First row! This room is going so much faster than the previous room. We've gotten more comfortable with the tools of the trade and we've learned what we need to freak out about and what we can let slide.

Working our way out. The wood we chose seems to go beautifully with all of our wall colors.

Bit of a break. So I went into the basement and garage and pulled out all the actual trash that needs to go to the dump. Old toilets, destroyed doors, giant cardboard boxes full of styrofoam, etc. All will be going to the recycling part of the landfill or the trash area. The basement is like 10x bigger with all this junk out of there. It has enough room now in the main room to hold all the junk that was sitting in the front room for weeks on end. Everything is really coming together.

Part of the dump trip was tearing out all the remaining carpet. The stairs were a pain, but look so much better even with just bare wood. A coat or two of primer and they'll look downright snazzy.

The upstairs hallway looks better now, too. Really, getting that horrible carpet out of my house was the most important thing of all. It smelled and just made everything gross.

Back to the floor!

As we finish more floor, there's less and less floor on which to store our crap. So we had to transfer back into the room.

This was the hardest cut so far in this room. Why didn't we start in here, again?

And that's about where we left off last night.

Here are some extraneous pictures of the house:

That's pretty snazzy, I must say. Many thanks to my mom and my wife for cleaning and organizing in here!

Here's our mantel with stockings and all. The J and J stockings you can probably figure out, and A is for my brother-in-law. But what about that fluffy pink W stocking, you might ask? That belongs to this one:

Her name is Winifred and she's pretty much taken over our whole life. She's adorable, as you can see, and is just a bundle of puppy-style energy. She's having a great time with grandma and grandpa coming over to help with the house, but I bet she'll be happier still when mommy and daddy can relax on the couch with her some nights again.

Thanks for reading!