Sunday, November 11, 2012

Kitchen Floor

For the last couple of months we have been working on our kitchen floor.  This really turned out to be more of a project then I thought was going to be.  One Friday while my husband was I work I went to town ripping out the first and second layer.  I of course thought" oh this will be easy".......ya not so much!

So here are some pictures of the whole process
         
     This is a pic of all the different layers

                                                                           

Here is a pic of the big mess I made when I pulled up the fist two layers

 
 
 
This was the "dining"half.  More peel n stick tiles.  We thought hard wood was under this.

 
This was the "kitchen" half. 

 
 
Eventually we did find hard wood under the "dining" half. But first was another layer of flooring

 
 
After 4 layers of flooring on the "dining" half and putting down floating vinyl on the kitchen half, we end up with this :)
 
 
This is the view from my living room into my kitchen.  I love the new floors. 

 
 
The hardwood is about 50 yrs old.  It is not perfect but it matches with the rest of the wood floors of the house and I love it!

 
 
We have new base board also.  We have been without for about two years now :)
 
 
 
 
So there ya go!  That was one less big project to get done :)  Oh I wanted to add all this whole project cost about $350.  Not to bad for new floors I think!
 

11 comments:

  1. It looks beautiful!!! I love our hardwood floor but they could use to be refinished...someday..unless you want to head down my way and help me :)

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    1. Thanks Judy! Our really need a refinishing too but that is not a project I want to take on. We ill just enjoy their old look lol :)

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  2. Looks great! Love the older hardwood floors- we have several areas in our house with those too!

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    1. Thanks! Hope all is well with you :) Kid # 3 is counting down the days until graduation.

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  3. Great job! It looks great!! We're doing the same thing in the spring! I can't wait!! :)

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    1. Thanks! It really does totaly improve the whole look of the kitchen!

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  4. Great! I bet you can get a professional to redo all the floors in the house for about 1500.00 so start saving. This is not something I would do myself.

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    1. I think we will just prolly live with them the way they are. Even though it may not be a huge expense to have the floors redone it would be really inconvient. We have them through the entire main floor and will have to move out to have them refinished.

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  5. Oh, it looks great! You guys did an awesome job. And saved tons of money doing it yourself too!

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