Laminate flooring has come a good distance within the final 10 years, and after 5 years of dwelling with previous, dingy flooring and 20-year-old carpet, we lastly put in laminate on our first flooring! These photographs 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, nicely, life occurred. Between 2 weddings, paying for faculty, 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 deal with house initiatives that we are able to personally take pleasure in.
BEFORE PHOTOS
Listed below are a few of the itemizing photographs of the home, you’ll be able to 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 is known as Earthen Chestnut, the Uncommon Classic Line by Mohawk. It isn’t bought in huge field shops, so that you’d should go to an area flooring seller and haggle on worth a bit. We landed on a worth round $2.60/sq. foot for round 1200 sq. ft (excluding labor).
We love the natural-looking hand-hewn end and the variation of colour. Consider 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 a couple of photographs 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 seems.
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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 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 in case you’re apprehensive 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 previous flooring was such an eyesore and impacted all of our design selections. The lesson is – don’t be like us. While you buy a house that’s in dire want of a flooring replace, in case you can, have your new flooring put in instantly after you shut on the home!
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