Say Cheese... Now Smile!

Since the our relationship with the white carpet downstairs has seen better days (also known as the pre-dog era), we decided to take it all out and put in woodfloors. Well, more like everyone else did and I found out a week before when they came home with 24 cases of wood laminate. so... yeah that's what I was going to do this weekend!


tools. hardcore.


a "before" picture.


sonny scraping concrete. this is "offically" harder than originally thought.

Taking out the carpet wasn't too bad. My mom had enlisted the help of one older filipino gentleman who was a friend of a friend of the family... and man co-worker who we're 90% sure is in love with her. She calls him Pogi, which basically in tagalog means "cute", and in return everytime some heavy duty "work" needs to be done around the house, he comes over and does her bidding. Both guys worked in fobby fipflops.


done! wait... this isn't wood.


under the carpet... theres a blue layer of cushion. thats what makes it so soft! i knew that!


... like in gymnastics! Go Canada!


out of bounds. a 10th of your score. no gold for you shortie!


oOoOO... its all woody!


24 hours later...


Ooo... almost finished...

We pretty much finished with the floor around midnight on Sunday night... then it was just finishing up with the quarter rounds and moving furniture in. Pieces at the door and closet need to be finished, but essentially, its pretty much DONE.


overhead view. we need some sort of rug in the middle now.


come on in! keep your shoes on! no more white carpet!!


the family room... completed!! don't you think a bear-skin rug would look GREAT in there!?

So yeah.. no more white carpet!! Well just downstairs. The upstairs is still white and prone to messyness... but it shouldn't be too bad. It feels a little bit wider downstairs and theres more of an echo too. Its nice. It looks nice. And you can slide around in socks. Did someone say DANCE PARTY USA!?!