Ripping up the floor

Happy Wednesday!  Today I thought I would show you the mess from last Monday when the first floor was being ripped up - and some more pictures of  the new floor.  The mess will make you say Wow! 

This is all the old wood from the kitchen and breakfast area. The carpeted area is where most of the furniture was placed/piled up.  The men who did the floors where really great, they had to keep shuffling furniture.  The did not scarch or break anything. 

It took most of Monday to get the floor and carpet removed.  And only two days to lay all the flooring and move the furniture back.  They had estimated ten hours of cleaning, and it took every hour of that time.

Here is a picture of the last little bit of floor to be laid.  They did a really amazing job.

Here is a picture from the breakfast area looking into the dining room.  J, my teenage son, was so upset when we told him all  the carpet was coming out downstairs.  He kept saying he likes the soft carpet.  As I told him, when he is home 99% of the time he spends in his room.  When he got home from school, he said he wanted hardwood floors in this room!  Funny kid.

This is in the Mister's office. The floor looks great, but look at that dusty desk! Told you it tooks hours of dusting everything - furniture, pictures, window sills - and windows, the walls.  I have finally got all the box's unpacked, so I will be showing you the rest of the dining room soon. 

Thanks for stopping by to have a look.  Make it an amazing day.

Linking to Wow Us Wednesday

Toni

Water damage..

So a few Saturday mornings ago I woke up to a rather large puddle of water around the fridge, under the fridge and in the pantry . So of course, I yelled for the Mister to come downstairs NOW.  The water dispenser had dripped all.night.long. My hardware floors where waterlogged. Ughhh. The Mister was able to repair the valve on the back of the fridge which took care of the leak.  It's a bit hard to tell from the above picture, but the floor is now uneven and discolored.  The picture below is a picture of undamaged floor in the foyer.

The wood sample is Asian Hickory in cinnamon which will be  installed in the next week or so. I love that it has wider planks and the color has both lighter and darker reds with almost black streaks through out. Right now we have carpet in the formal living room, dining room and the family room. We are going to have these rooms also changed to the new wood.  I am so excited. Also a little worried about how dirty this process is going to be.  On the estimate in big, bold words " This is an extremely dusty process." And they estimate 10 hours of clean up. Wow. Ten hours! Wish me luck. Have any of you had flooring ripped and laid will a house full of furniture?  Any suggestion or comments are very welcome : )  Did I mention I am healing from a broken femur bone? Let the fun begin.

Thanks for all of  you stopped by and took a look at my roosters & chickens.  The comments made me smile and feel very welcome in blog land.  Thanks again.

PS - I will work on my picture taking skills.

Toni