Wood

Floors!! We're going to the floor store today to get some prices on installing wood flooring in our house!! This is exciting folks!! I do love vacuuming, but it's becoming insane. I cannot keep up. Three times a day, every day and you'd think I didn't even own a sophisticated carpet sucking machine if you saw my carpet. It's embarassing. Sooo the solution? HARDWOOD BABY!! I'm hoping to not spend any more than three thousand...but we'll see. We do know that we want real hardwood, not laminate, so we know the cost is going to be substantial. But, it's cleaner, it boosts resale, it keeps it's value and it looks nice!! I'm very very VERY excited! I took measurements today, with my trusty 3 year old helper! He's VERY good at holding the end of the tape measure for me!! haha and Soooo happy to help out! We're looking at about 300-ish square feet of coverage. Not a huge space, but still, it's not going to be cheap!! It's funny because when we were house hunting a lot of fairly nice houses didn't even make it onto our short list because of the wood/laminate floors. Now, it's all I can think about! Go figure! We had them in the old house, but they were the cheaper engineered kind and super glossy and kinda tacky now that I think about it!! I did have a quick look yesterday and found a few finishes that I really liked, that were low sheen and already looked slightly distressed. So, when I'm going to have three boys running around, pristine floors aren't really an option...slightly distressed is though! haha anyway, off to see how many kids I have to sell to get new floors in my house!! ta ta!