After Pics!! Great Room and Hallway!! Manic Monday!!

So, yet again, we pulled it off!! We refloored our entire main floor in just two short weekends!! And better yet I couldn't be happier with the results!! We started off the weekend by emptying the pantry and my (SUPER FRIGGEN HEAVY) china cabinet, relocating these items throughout the house (if you wanted pantry food you had to go to the office... good fun... lol....not so much... but hey like I said it looks amazing!!

Saturday morning Ash and Mike came over and helped take up the old laminate flooring (as they are going to reuse it in there master bedroom as its still in great shape (only three years old). Then Eric got cracking on the floor, starting around 3pm (by the time all the prep work was done), and floored straight through until 10pm, when we could finally start moving some furniture (namely said SUPER HEAVY china cabinet) back into the great room, so we could go to bed (as all the china was chillin on our bed).

Sunday morning we got up and Eric started putting down all the quarter round I tediously painted Saturday afternoon. Then he went to work on the shelving for our pantry. We used to just have two shelves sitting inside the closet that for some odd reason had a hanging bar (despite not being close to the front door), which was a huge pain in the butt, as stuff always fell behind the shelves and was never seen again (until Friday night ...). We made the discovery I had purchased the wrong kind of track(with the guidance of a Home Depot associate), so we had to head back to the store to buy the right one (with only an hour to spare before the store closed). This is the point in the story to note that it was 8 degrees celcius out all weekend (quite nice), so we literally grabbed Hannah and the track and ran out the door. We got about 15 minutes from home and noticed it the sky looked dark behind us, and Eric commented that he hoped it didn't rain as the saw we had been using to cut all the flooring was still outside on the deck (waiting to be used to cut the pantry shelves...). Que the rain, not even a minute later rain drops splashed on our windshield. We decided it was going to be a super quick trip into Home Depot, so we went in got the right stuff (all of which took maybe 15 minutes), walked out of Home Depot and we are in a freaking blizzard. It was now snowing hard. GREAT!! We drove home as quickly as the weather would allow, and rescued our soaking wet saw, and we wondered if it was going to work, as it was clearly wet. So Eric blew it out with his air compressor, and fired it up. AND IT WORKED!!! YAY!! Thank goodness. So he finished up the pantry, we moved the rest of the furniture back in and Eric was supposed to relax as I reorganized the pantry. But someone had other plans for him, he'd just sat down on the couch and put his feet up, and BEEP!!BEEP!!!BEEP!!, his fire pager went off, car crash on the 401, out he goes, is gone about an hour comes home, says he's going to take a shower, is in the bedroom getting his stuff ready and BEEP!!!!BEEP!!!BEEP!!! (again...ugh), another car accident. Off he goes, out for another hour, finally home and really hoping for a good nights rest. Lucklily, no more calls for the night, we had a hydro outage, due a to a freak thunderstorm?? (sun, rain, snow and thunder all in one day WHAT?!!). But here are my beautiful floors!! I love them.... although Hannah has wiped out on them a few times this morning....

Looking down the hall... probably my favorite view....

dining area

can't wait to see these cabinets expresso next weekend....

New shelves in the pantry

now filled up

much better!!!

So, that's my reno weekend, so thrilled that it is done, only one more reno to go, we saved the best for last!! Stay tuned later this week for the before pics of the kitchen!! I'm linking up with Ashley at Life As I Know It for her Manic Mondays, so head on over here and link up and tell her what you did this weekend!!

Amy

What a wet, crappy weekend it was!!!!

As my title says what a wet crappy weekend it was and for once I'm not referring to the weather, I'm sure that everyone that was waiting to see the finished product of my headboard will totally understand why there was a delay in me posting all weekend. My hubbie and I had a successful night of headboard makin' and we loved the finished product and I had just gone to bed proud of myself and in a great mood, and my hubbie was headed downstairs to have a shower before bed and feed the cat. So I just get into a nice sleep and I hear Eric yelling for me "Amy get down here the basements flooded". I was like "yah right I'm sure he's kidding as he didn't want to feed the cat, after all our house is only three years old". But he persisted, so I went down and low and behold our basement sure is flooded....did I mention our beautiful, fully finished basement...

What a freaking disaster, but it gets better..... Eric immediately goes out to the garage to grab the shop vac and start sucking up the mysteriously warm water and I start inspecting the hot water heater for signs that it has lost its load... I can't see anything though. Now bear in mind, hubbie and I were headed for bed so I am barefoot and in a night gown and he's barefoot in his pj pants. I scramble for towels to try and save the carpet and Eric goes to dump the first load of water down the sump pit. And then he makes the discovery that sent me running out of the room. The sewage pump on the downstairs washroom has stopped working and we are in fact infiltrated with sewage, not water. YUCK!!!!!!!! So, too little to late we continue cleaning stuff while I call our insurance company as we have a young daughter I do not want sewage in my house. I'm sure they appreciated the late night call (midnight) about as much as we appreciated sewage in our basement.... but they have been really great.

Saturday morning they had a clean up crew at our place to assess the damages, and disinfect. They took away all the damaged items and cut out the affected carpet and left us with these ginormous fans to dry the place out. Oh and a disgusting, headache inducing smell of disinfectant. In just 12 hrs I had gone from loving my life, to HATING it!! 

We were supposed to be hosting our neighborhood pumpkin carving Sat night, and obviously that was not happening, so thankfully one of the other moms was so kind to a) watch Hannah all afternoon as I dealt with the insurance company - I did not want to miss them taking out my stuff and b) host the party. I was never so grateful to get out of my own house. I had had a hell of a day... my lab went through our french door screen after seeing multiple people carrying stuff out of our house and my hubbie was at work so I was literally on my own dealing with all this. So getting out of the house was just what I needed.

We lost a lot stuff and are now trying to figure out what we will do with our basement. Eric has really bad allergies so we were eventually (think 10 yr plan) going to replace the carpet with wood flooring (bear in mind we are in a raised ranch so we have full size windows in our basement), so now is our opportunity. We have been out checking out flooring and are just waiting for the quotes to come in to replace our stuff. I hope to have our flooring and everything back in place by December 1st. so hopefully they can make that happen....

We did find though that flooring installation is expensive.... so we are toying with the idea of my hubbie installing it himself as we did re-do all the floors in our old house so he is super experienced. We just have to find the time to make it happen as the room that was affected was over 600 sq ft. 

So that was the beginning of my weekend, tomorrow I'll tell you about Hannah's second Halloween. Hopefully all this chaos dies down soon....... 

A