Floor Samples

Deciding on a floor for the foyer/kitchen/ 1/2 bath downstairs was a challenge. We originally wanted to go with tile but the risks of it cracking in such an old house outweighed the benefit of the look. Also...it is COLD in Binghamton so a tile floor wouldn't feel too great under our feet in the winters. We couldn't do wood because we have wood laminate in the dining room/living room and real wood in the bedrooms upstairs. We considered a floating tile laminate (like a wood laminate but is made to "look" like tile) but wet feet from the back and front door quickly warps and damages that type of flooring so we decided to go with a vinyl mock tile which will stay warm under our feet & has the flexibility to keep up with an old house (no cracking!) We narrowed our selections down to the two colors shown below. We decided to go with the light slate-"ish" color for the foyer, kitchen and 1/2 bath. First we have to remove the baseboards, prime and paint the foyer/hall/kitchen...stay tuned...

We choose:

Master Bedroom

Before (there are 2 layers of wallpaper under this paint):

After days of scraping wallpaper and priming the room, we had to cut a big square out of the ceiling where water damage (from the hole in the roof) rotted the wood lath underneath the drywall. We painted the lath with antibacterial paint that DadKuhn had leftover from when the nursing home flooded last year:

Zach inspecting the insulation on the other side of the ceiling:

The square we cut:

New drywall square:

Primed walls:

Touched up the windows, painted the baseboard covers, spackled/sanded walls, replaced part of the ceiling, painted walls.......

TADA!!! :

We are moving out of the dining room and into the master bedroom this weekend-now we can have guests over in our living room and we won't be sitting in our bedroom at the same time :)