The new flooring has been installed. It looks great and I like it. Here you can see the shelf that runs the length of the room (20 feet) under the windows. I painted it. I figured what the heck, it was dirty, and I might as well spend the money on a quart of paint and improve the look. I'm really glad I did.
Once the floor was done, we arranged the bookcases and brought in the bins of fabric. We swept the floors, and I even vacuumed the floors, but it wasn't until I damp-mopped the new floors that they finally felt really clean. This flooring, when cut generates a TON of very fine dust, and it covered EVERYTHING. I had to clean every piece of furniture in the room. In fact, I have decided to hold off putting the fabric back on the shelves because I want any dust to settle so it won't get on my fabric.
Here is the office. The best thing about the hard floor here is that my chair will now glide on the floor and I won't need that stupid plastic mat that I trip over half the time.
Obviously neither room is completely done. There are issues (one lamp crashed and died) and things I noticed once I got the big furniture out, and more work is going to happen (can you say Paint?). But I'm tired so that will have to wait.
But I'm happy and it was money well spent, As the contractor said as he was preparing to leave, "Well, Lynne, you've just increased the value of your house." I mean, the rugs were beige, stained, and over thirty years old. The new floors are waterproof. Woot!
Interesting….when we installed our LVT, we used a guillotine cutter which didn’t generate much dust. Anyway, the floors look fabulous and the shelf looks smart with the new paint.
ReplyDeleteThe floors look fantastic! The mix of brown & gray, old barn wood, goes with any color. Will you be rearranging anything in the sewing room, or have you done that enough over the years that you've found what works best already?
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