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KITCHEN FLOOR!!!

I spent two nights working on this MEGA project! And boyyyyyy was MJW surprised!

The kitchen floor now matches the dining room floor, which is a dark wood laminate. A great IKEA find ;)

The kitchen was the last real "out of date" portion of the house that we really needed to upgrade. The hideous kitchen floor (yellow, spotted and stained linoleum floor) was an eye soar to say the least.

My plan was to recruit my co-worker Chris to help with this task. I knew I would only have a couple nights during the two weeks MJW was gone to start and finish this project. Chris, actually read my mind some how and offered his help a couple days before I was going to ask him! You see, I went over to his house last summer to help him paint the entire house, so he "owed" me one ;)

He instant messaged me:

"Zaner, I heard you had started painting rooms in your house without me!"

Me: "Yes I have, but I DO need your assistance with a kitchen floor install. *gasp"

He was nice enough to offer a couple hours of his time, and he recruited one other person, Russel, to help out. Chris also had a miter and scroll saw that I desperately needed to do a prorfessional installation.

They came over on a Friday night, and stayed for 3 hours! We accomplished the initial demolistion and first couple rows of new wood laminate installation. It was discovered that underneath the old linoleum floor was another sub-floor with an even uglier linoleum. Weird... I wonder if someday someone will cover up my floor, thinking that this wood laminate is the nastiest thing they have ever seen! Time will tell, but I can say for sure that both layers of linoleum were sickening. hahahhaha.

The adjoining area between the kitchen and living room

Using the scroll saw to cut a non-linear cut

Anna washing up some Spinish! Proteins and Vitamins





Sasa on the old kitchen floor, getting g-o-o-f-y

I was able to continue and finish the floor installation the following Wednesday, after our trip to Chicago (blog post coming on that). I stayed up that epic night until 2AM laying down the last pieces of the floor. When I laid down and hammered into place the final piece, I looked over the entire room with the GREATEST sense of relief ever! I knew MJW would be SO HAPPY and suprised. The best part of all.... AFJW kept the surprise a total secret, even under the constant pressure to reveal it by Mom! Kudos to AFJW! <3<3<3