Haven't I already done this?

Hey folks,

Been a while since I've updated the blog, but let's face the truth here: when you work on a house constantly when do you want to update the blog? Only when things are actually finished! Makes you feel good to see a finished product...and with this house that only happens so often.

One of the biggest battles with this house is the kitchen - isn't that the case with all homes? Having been built before running water and electricity, the kitchen isn't as big and convenient as most kitchens are today. First, lack of cabinet space. Not much I can do there. Secondly, new (few years old anyway) tile floor completely ruined. Now that I can do something about.

Having already put down some wood laminate flooring (below) in the adjoining breakfast nook (which was on sale but there wasn't enough for the kitchen too), the original plan was going to be fix the tile in the kitchen. But then I got to shopping at one of my favorite places and found some dark reddish-tinted oak wood laminate flooring (it's really not as red as it looks in the pictures at the bottom) on sale and BOOM! New plan gets put into action.

(old laminate)

Step 1: remove laminate put down months ago and relocate to laundry room and downstairs bathroom; remove broken tiles and rest of perfectly fine tiles in kitchen and scrape dried mortar off old kitchen floor

Step 2: drive two hours round-trip to pick up new laminate flooring (also bought on sale)

Step 3: lots of cursing and swearing as Dad and I discover why new saidfloor was on sale

Step 4: finish new floor in breakfast nook over weekend; finish new floor in kitchen few days later

Step 5: enjoy not having to step around broken tile as you admire your new kitchen floor :)

(new laminate)