The Wood Floor - Part 3

We have been working very hard on installing our Brazilian Cherry wood floor in the scrapbook room. It's been very easy to do as long as you don't have two dogs coming to visit every 5 minutes and helping. Seems like we have alot of canine supervisors lately. I was able to capture a couple of pictures of one of the biggest interruptions during this project!!!! By the way...I really am helping :-)

To back up a bit....

We had a beautiful oak hardwood floor in this room but it was just awfully worn out. This home was built in 1967 and even though it has been updated throughout most of the living area this floor hasn't been touched since then. Tom and I enjoyed alot of discussion and decided that it would be faster, less expensive and also less messy if we layed down a new floor rather than renting 2 sanders (1 large and 1 edger), restaining and finishing the existing floor. Now that the project is done I think we made the right decision!

We purchased 7 boxes of flooring going by the graph on the floor package and to our wonderful surprise we are able to return 2 boxes. This manufacturer was very generous with their square footage estimates. We will get approximately $85 back so we can go buy the door and floor moldings and not spend any extra money.

The process of each row went quite quickly.

The floor is now done and we just LOVE it. Tom is putting in the transition strip to go from our hall carpet to the new wood floor and then we can begin installing the molding.

Everything is coming together just as I visualized it to be. How exciting!

I'll post more updates on the molding and installation of new closet and entrance doors. We will then move onto designing the wall shelving unit. That will take a bit to finish I'm sure.