A New Floor

My mom has been asking me when I'm going to post pictures of our new floor. So since Emmett is finally in bed, and my husband is gussin around in the kitchen I think I finally have a moment.

We don't think the linoleum was very old. Probably no more than 10 years. I'm guessing when the previous owners were picking out color, they probably tried to find something that would match with the pink tile countertops that used to be there, and since they didn't want to conquer this horrible project of getting rid of them, they decided to pick out linoleum color that would somewhat go together and bear with it. (Until they moved and passed it on to the next crazy owners! ha!)

You might not be able to tell very well from the camera, but it was whitish gray, and had a very slight shade of pink in it.

Yeah, I loved it about as much as I loved the pink countertops.

This was a good day:

Backer-board is laid and ready to tile:

Mike's brother Nick was in Utah for the weekend, and offered to help lay tile with him on Saturday. They worked hard for about 12 hours all day.

After its laid, it has to dry for about 24 hours, until the cement underneath is hard. Then you have to grout the lines.

On Monday morning, my sister and her husband Nate offered to come down from Saratoga Springs and help. So Nate and Mike grouted the tile for about 6 hours. Laying tile is a lot of work, but you save yourself SO much money doing it yourself.

I'm sure neither of these guys really wanted to spend their Memorial Day weekend helping Mike lay tile, but I hope they know how much it helped!!! It saved Mike hours and hours of time down on his hands and knees, had he been alone!

Here are the pictures I took Monday night after the grouting was finished.

The blank spaces in the floor are where some cabinets are going to go. And you can see we are still missing baseboards... All in due time...

It looks so good!

It still needs to be sealed, and a few other details, but for the most part its done!