Before and After :: Kitchen Floor

Kitchen

These pictures of the kitchen are from the listing. The old owners stuff. But you get the idea of the before.

Then you may remember the updates we did when we first moved in. Mostly new paint.

Before

We pulled everything apart (at what seems like the same time - note the toilet in the kitchen from the bathroom flooring). We reinstalled the toilet and sink and then started on the floor one Monday.
I thought for a long time that we would tile. We brought home samples of Dura-Ceramic and I asked your opinion on what looked the best. We brought home samples of other tile as well. But I think I put off the decision because I really didn't want tile. It's cold and hard and the tile we had in the last apartment was terrible. It has left a bad taste in my mouth. It was always dirty and stained terribly. So we decided on hard wood. I couldn't be happier with it. It is an engineered wood, so it should work well in the kitchen. It is designed to stand up to water better than solid wood and is treated with a polymer top coat to protect from scratches.

The first row.

You can see all of the dishes from the China Cabinet all over the counter. Renovation is messy work.

Glamorous picture. Me in pajama pants and knee pads, recycling bins on the counter and Christmas tree in the background with all the boxes of wood laid out.

Charlie didn't seem to mind all the commotion. He really wanted to help, he had his nose in everything.

Here is Logan returned from the basement. We had set up the mitre saw downstairs because the temperature had dropped and it was too cold outside (like the tile saw on the deck several days earlier). He kept track of his trips, I think it was 104 round trips.

After

Before the new baseboards

Complete
I love the new baseboards.