I just wanted to post a quick update on the kitchen.Our contractor and his helper were at the house yesterday finishing the kitchen floor.I have to say we are really happy with the way the floor looks.The kitchen looks so much better and once we get it repainted and the hardware on the cupboards updated,it will look great.
Here are some pictures of the kitchen....
The new floor in the kitchen.Ignore the mess on the counter.
There is a quick look at the new kitchen floor.I wanted to post some before and after pictures for you,but I can't find the before pictures at the moment.When or if I do I will post them on here so you can see the difference.
But for now your just going to have to trust me that the old kitchen floor was really,really, crappy looking!!
I thought for fun I would post a few pictures of the new kitchen floor, even though it is not in yet.I figured since nothing else was going on(and you might be bored)this was a good time to show you the floor.Not all of it of course,just a few pieces.
Also a picture of the completed bathroom and some funky colored mats in our son Sam's room,liked it needed more color.All this today for your viewing pleasure.
Sit back and enjoy the wonderful world of home reno's......
Here is the new kitchen floor.This is a laminate floor,which as you can tell is meant to look like tile.
A close up of the kitchen floor.This stuff feels almost like cardboard type material.From what the guy at the store told us,this stuff is really durable,which makes it great for a kitchen floor.To do our whole kitchen it cost us $750 for the floor.
One more look at the kitchen floor.We were originally going to do the kitchen floor with the same laminate we used in all the bedrooms.We thought it would flow nice if all the floors looked the same, but unfortunately we ran short on that type of floor.I think we needed about 13 more boxes of that floor.We went back to where we bought the floor but they only had 6 boxes.This floor was a special order floor and it would have taken between 4-6 weeks to get here.Well we didn't want this to hold us up from getting in the house, so we figured it would be quicker if we just bought a different type of floor.We did.All this happened about 6 weeks ago.
This would be the colored mats in Sam's room.These colors match the colors on the wall which I think happened by luck.This room doesn't look as crazy as we thought it would when Sam first told us what colors he wanted on his walls.The mats give the room that extra color kick.
The completed bathroom.Note how the toilet sticks out just a little(we wanted it more even with the vaniety).Why is this you might ask? Well I guess there was a floor joist where the toilet was supposed to go,so they had to move it up a little.It looks off at first, but once you get use to the look it's not that bad.
OK,you have seen the incomplete kitchen floor,the colorful room and the bathroom with the toilet that sticks out.
That's all I have for now!!
I just thought I would post a quick update and let you know that, NO we are not in the house yet.
You probably might have thought otherwise since I have not posted an update in well over a week.But the truth is it was flu that kept me from updating the blog and not the fact that I was busy moving things into the house.
And don't worry I would at least tell you when we were moved in.
So how close are we you might ask?
Well we are really close to the end.There is just the kitchen floor left to go in and some small little odd jobs here and there.
Then after all that is done we need to pass a final inspection and then we will have the green light to move in.Our contractor figures he has maybe another day of work left to do.
Now you might think that with only having a day left of work we would be in the house this week sometime.
You would be wrong to think that though.
Our contractor has other jobs on the go and can only squeeze us in on the week-ends,thus dragging the last little bit of work out even longer.
In all fairness to our contractor he was not supposed to be putting the floors in our house as we had somebody else lined up for this.Unfortunately that fell through and we had to ask our contractor if he could fit this into his work load.That's the reason this last bit is taking longer than it should.
Had we asked him to do our floors right from the start of the job, we would probably be living in the house by now.But we thought we were saving money going with someone that was cheaper or so we thought.We all know how that turned out.
If there is one thing that I have learned from this whole thing,it is that cheaper is not always better.In fact what we thought was cheaper ended up costing us time and extra money.
So that's all I have report for now.I will update with some more pictures I promise!!
Well,we are getting there.After almost five months out of the house, the end of the home renovation is in sight.
OK,so everything will not been done.We still have a lot of small projects to do, but these are projects that can be completed while we are living in the house.Besides,if we waited until everything was done before we moved in,we would be out of the house for the next decade.
That might be a stretch,but you get what I am saying.
Lets look at some pictures....
Our son Sam decided he wanted his room four different colours.This would be the green and the yellow walls
And this would be the red and blue walls.To tell you the truth the room doesn't look as crazy as we thought it would.
These would be the closet doors in our room.You can see our contractor put in a shelf,with a rod(that would be the white thing) to hang some clothes.
Here is the vanity and the linen tower.I tried to get the whole linen tower in the picture but it just didn't work.In case you were wondering the linen tower does go a little bit higher than the picture shows.Also I forgot to mention the medicine cabinet in the introduction to this picture,not that you couldn't see it without me telling you.
There it is,the house in all it's glory.Once they finish the bathroom,get the floors in the other two bedrooms and get the plumbing hooked up and running we will be able to move in.This could happen within the week.
The kitchen floors I am told will be done after we move in.Our contractor told my brother he didn't want to keep us out of the house any longer which is good to hear.
Hopefully it is not much longer.
