Skip to main content

Debut of floors

Been busy this past week putting furniture and some items back in the house. 
With that said I still do not have it all in place but enough where I can give a good idea of what was before and what is now.

My house was built in 1982 and had all original carpet and vinyl. 
carpet was in ever room except kitchen and back bathroom, my bathroom did have carpet which was eliminated.

Carpet was brown and the vinyl was a dark tan with a darker pattern which made the house dark. My goal was to lighten it up without going white. 

So here are before and after pics



I think I was able to get a brighter look in the kitchen.
Turned out so much better than I thought, I was really worried this tile would be too big and not look good together but it does.


No more carpet ...... YEAH!!!!!

Got the tile look but the warmth of the vinyl.


Don't we love our hexagons 


I can not say enough on how much I like this carpet. It's so soft, clean and brighter.
I will not miss the old carpet at all and so glad it's gone.
This is a temporary setup in the sewing room right now. I would love to get a storage/cutting table but right not this old bread/pastry table will work.

Now the HARDWOOD



LOVE .... LOVE .... LOVE ...

second photo is more like the true color
It looks likes the old homes in Sacramento that I grew up around.
I feel so at home now.

I am so relieved that it is over now but it was so worth it.

Thank you for putting up with me during all this.
Now life is getting closer to normal


Comments

  1. All of your flooring is beautiful. Your readers had it easy. I am sure none of it was very easy for you, but as you said well worth it.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Gorgeous! I would love to trade out all the carpeting for tile and wood flooring. Enjoy your updated digs!

    ReplyDelete
  3. looks lovely must have been nice to have a big redo like that. I would love to get rid of all the carpet in the house either for new cleaner stuff or wood

    ReplyDelete
  4. It is all looking wonderful but the hardwood floor is a dream, stunning! Well worth all the anguish it all looks so much lighter as you wanted. Now sit back and enjoy it all. Take care.

    ReplyDelete
  5. of all the great improvements, the kitchen is my favorite. I actually think I may have that same tile set on point in my sewing room. great job on all the updates!!!

    ReplyDelete
  6. the floors look great so worth all the effort.........

    ReplyDelete
  7. All just gorgeous and so fun to see the before and after shots! :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Welcome friends to share a thought, I enjoy reading them and will try my best to reply back by email most of the time. But if you do not hear back it's because you are a no-reply blogger.

Popular posts from this blog

How to Make a Portable Design Wall

I had wanted to get a portable design wall to take to retreats but did not want to pay the price. Looked at various pins on pinterest and took ideas from more than one to come up with my verison. It worked out great and only cost a fraction of the price. The PVC pipes, joints and 2 yards of felt cost under $22.00 My design wall is 4' x 4' which stands approximately 5 1/5' tall. For this size need 2 - 10ft length of 3/4" PVC pipe for the frame and 4ft of 1" PVC pipe for the feet Cut the 3/4" PVC into 4 - 4' section                                                                                       2 - 1' section              Cut the 1"  PVC into 4 - 1' section          The joints you'll need will be 2 - 3/4" elbows 2 - 3/4" T's 2 - 3/4" to 1" T (this will be the base of the Feet) 4 - 1" elbow Also need pipe cutters (this cost me almost as much

Yarn Along 2/20/13 Spoon Pin Doily

It's snowing here and I know some of you are tired of snow but here we will take the moisture any way we can get it. Plus it just gives me a reason to stay in and work on some of my projects. In this picture I'm not sure if you can make it out but in the background there are some wild turkeys that hang around the house sometime, just  chilling This project I'm working on is Spool Pin Doilies.   I had never heard of them before until Bonnie Hunter had mentioned it on her blog . She a had a viewer send her one for her sewing machine along with a pattern. I did not like the pattern but loved the idea so I decided to make up my own version. I wanted a more simple, smaller and fuller doily. So I tried different thread sizes to get one that I like. (From left to right) I tried sock yarn, which I'll redo because I think I like that look. Heavy weight crochet thread, nope too big Bamboo yarn, I like it. Looks good on my Kenmore. Pearl cott

What's Up

Well that is a big question, what's up Seeing how I haven't posted since before the retreat I went to. So I will show what I did at the retreat and what I have been doing these past few days, which is this Log Cabin Christmas Tree  wall hanging I have the blocks completed and now it just a matter of getting them sewn together. I'll get to that tomorrow. While at the retreat I made this baby quilt top with the disappearing 4-patch block. I had a charm pack and used some "snow" fabric Kaufman snow is one of my favorite whites to use. It's white but not a stark, bright white, goes well with a majority of the fabric I've collected. I started late making my blocks for RCS14 First I wasn't sure what pattern I wanted to make and then with all that was going on the first part of the year, I didn't start until July. One quilt is using a quarter log cabin in solid colors. I made these at the retreat, have the other half t