And the project is finished.....

Well, sort of.  Good news is that the stairs are now back in commission.  Old carpet is all off, new risers put on, and new treads stained and installed.  And it looks fabulous!!!!!!!!  Mike really has outdone himself on this project.  :)  However, we still need to go back and touch up all the white paint and cover up stain spots.  Not to mention we now have a lovely unfinished gap between the top step and the old carpet in the hallway - yuck!  Hallway is next!  BUT, we are in the home stretch of the ginormeous floor project throughout our house.  So here is the finished stairway (except for details - so don't look too hard!). 

Let's remember where we came from......BEFORE:

 

AFTER:

Some more angles....

Floors Done! {Almost}

The new hardwoods are down in both rooms! We are slowly moving everything back into the rooms but we are loving the new look downstairs. We only have some trim {baseboards/quarter round} left to install. It was a long couple of weeks to have your house ripped up but it was totally worth it. Here are a few pictures of the finished product.

Slow Going...

So, the floors are coming along - slow but sure. We have about 1/3 of the living room done and hopefully a lot of the hard spots done. Here are some update pictures {I apologize for the quality - I was just taking quick pictures with our little point-n-shoot.}.

The laying begins...

The progress we had made as of 9 PM Sunday night.

Hardwood Floors - Begin!

The long awaited project of hardwood floors has begun! As you might remember, we found our floor back in September at Lumber Liquidators and they have been sitting in our garage since then. We were in the midst of our wainscoting project when we bought them so we waited to do one project at a time. Then Christmas time happened - so that is why we are to January and just beginning. We are starting in the living room and then once we are are finished there we will move on to the office. So this is what our living room looked like before (you can catch glimpses of Mike's wainscoting work):



First things first, carpet needs to come up.

Then the particle board subfloor needs to come up so that all the floor will be even.

New Floors

Mike and I have been mulling over new hardwoods for the downstairs basically since we moved in. Nothing ever made us jump out of our seat and called to us "Buy me!". But the other day this flooring, I'm pretty sure, called out to me through my computer screen. So I proposed it to my husband and he said we should go look at it. On down to Lumber Liquidators we went this evening. Found out that it is on clearance (hence the cheap price) and they didn't have much left! There weren't any ifs ands or buts - we were buying it. All this is to say, we bought new hardwood floors for our downstairs today! Now we just need to install them.....that will be quite the process I'm sure.