New Flooring

My mom and Manfred came to take the kids on a "Stay-cation" so that Jeff and I could spend the weekend working on the floors.  They all stayed at Ocean Lakes Campground and had a very good time with their Grandma and Grandpa!

Ice Cream, games, swimming and the park!

We had some great friends come over and help with the heavy lifting and back breaking jobs of getting out our furniture, the old carpet and the tack strips that held down the carpet.  Thanks to Jennie and Tyson!  It was a huge help.

I kinda-sorta flaked out at the beginning and forgot to take the "Before Pictures".  So the WOW factor will be missing.  Take my word for it.......the carpet was pretty bad.  So here are the pictures of the living room after the furniture and carpet had already been moved.

And a picture of Jeff with the work in progress.  I also decided to paint the wall on the left side of this picture which is a very high wall and we put some wide bead vinyl Wainscot in the area where the clock is.

And here are some pictures of the final product with most of the furniture back in it's place.

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The area that now has the Wainscot has been a challenge for us to figure out what to do with it.  But I have had this in mind for a little while now and we are so happy with the way it turned out!  The living room now has all the furniture back in it and we have an area rug in front of the couch with the coffee table back in place.  We love the new flooring and are already trying to prioritize our project for next year.  :o)