When we moved into our home almost seven years ago, we pulled up all the flooring and had laminate and tile floors installed. Some of our people were dealing will allergies and we were trying to eliminate all the places that allergens could hide. We have learned a lot raising six active children on entirely hard floors. Some things have made us thankful for the hard floors (potty training and stomach viruses), others have made us long for carpet (lack of sound barrier and soft places to sit on the floor).
After living pretty hard on our floors, we had banged up the tile pretty bad. We also discovered there was something wrong with the installation and it became obvious that the tile floors needed to be replaced. We tried removing the flooring ourselves. If you came to our house in the last few months, you have witnessed our efforts. We proved to ourselves that we are not DIYers, but at least we tried.
Following our DIY experiment, we had many discussions about how we live in our house; things we love and hate about our current flooring situation, dreams and "I wonders" were discussed and bids taken on the work. We came up with a plan, it sounded simple enough...
Elliott and I took a date and went shopping to select the tile to go back into the kitchen, utility and bathrooms. We decided to relocate the laminate flooring from the upstairs game room and the two kids bedrooms to the downstairs hallway and living room. We still need to go select carpet (with a nice noise-reducing pad) to go into the upstairs "kid areas". Flooring will remain the same in the upstairs craft room, downstairs office, dining room and master bedroom.
Many weeks and months of planning, and the work started this week. Tuesday, to be exact. We have had to be creative; spending our days quarantined to small areas of the house, cooking in the upstairs bathroom, sneaking out from underneath plastic sheeting which is shielding us from the dust explosion on the main floor so that we can take the dogs to potty, cleaning up after the dogs upstairs when you forgot to keep an eye on how long it has been since the last time you took them potty, breaking all the rules about eating meals sitting properly at the table and never upstairs, or on the couch, not to mention watching a jaw dropping three movies in one day.
My entire downstairs has been moved into the dining room and office. The contents of the upstairs shelved and all toys have been moved into the upstairs craft room. It looks like we just moved in and threw everything in a handful of rooms to parse back out. The flooring project should be done by the 22nd, then I have to put everything back. It isn't turning out to be as simple as I first thought...
And just for fun, we also should start having the pool dug out this week, and in preparation for that were moving some plants and broke a couple of sprinkler heads. Thankfully, my sprinkler guy was able to come out and fix everything, as well as prep things for keeping the sprinkler system from being destroyed by the pool installation. My yard in colored in various shades of spray paint and the excitement over the pool getting underway is mounting. However, it has also rained a little everyday, which is causing my pool guy to be a little reluctant to begin the digging... hopefully they will start soon, we are all ready to swim! :)
So, if you talk to me on the phone and I seem a little frazzled, or I send you an email and don't make much sense, you know why... I am totally scatterbrained with trying to schedule different parts of this juggling act. I can't wait for the results. I also cant wait to uncover my coffee maker again...
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