It's Laminate Laying Time!

It's funny to think we are now into the Renovation Stage of owning the house, but we are now upgrading our beautiful painted plywood floors to laminate.

We have chosen 'Midnight Barnboard' for our main living space (living room, dining room & entrance hallway) - with lino in the actual entrance & kitchen.

Before we started, we needed to fix a sag in the floor which meant that Phil was back to using his tools indoors & making a lovely mess...




We had just returned from a month long 'vacation' & wasted no time in getting things ready for our project.

The laminate arrived 2 days later than we were hoping, but just allowed us to work on another project down in the suite, as you will see at the end of this post.

This is our 'Midnight Barnboard' laminate.

We started in the living room, which meant we had to remove the pellet stove - not a fun nor easy thing to do! The white lay is a sound proofing layer we found while doing our weeks of research back in November. It came rather inexpensively from the US & I really hope it helps with breaking up the transfer of sound between our space & the suite. The suite bedroom is (unfortunately) right below where we have our TV...

Ok - DAY 1 saw us finishing up the living room area & we were able to move the pellet stove back in & get it hooked up & running again. It's still pretty chilly at nights & the days are dark & gloomy with rain. I hope we get to see the laminate floor in the sunshine soon!!

Phil finally got his toolbelt this Christmas!

DAY 2 - work moved now into the dining room & the area around the lino in the kitchen. A bit of tricky cutting was necessary around the curved drywall corners & up to the transition by the office.

I'm so glad we have central vac - I spent most of my time 'helping' by keeping the areas clean & keeping Phil a steady supply of boards for clicking into place.

Ooooo - I'm liking the way the laminate looks up against the lino...

Surprisingly, the laminate really isn't all that grey. The more we live with it & get used to the feel, the more it seems to pick up on some of the browns in the house. The lino isn't all grey either - there are hints of blue & rust/brown in it that warm it up.

DAY 3 - last bit of work is in the entrance hallway, which includes our large pantry closet. Lots of tricky cutting here too around the door frames & to the edge of the lino in the entrance.

By the end of the day, it was finished & we were exhausted. Looks great & seems to make the space feel larger...

DAY 4 - Tansition day - Phil's been busy making all our own transition strips out of fir. Lots of sawdust & noise & thankfully it has been a sun-shiney type of day.

Once the transition strips are cut, we'll have to varathane them & install them.

I love when the sun shines around here!!

We got down into the suite bathroom a few days before our tenant came back from holidays & put in the last piece of lino. I love how it goes so well with the blue walls & the red vanity!!

There will be some photos coming up later once the transition strips are varathaned. Stay tuned!