Day 230 - Hardwood Floor y'all!

This weekend the hardwood floors were installed!  The were installed in 3 long days by a family friend named Nate "Smitty" Smith.  Smitty is married to Emily's old college roommate, Deborah (or Debbie as she's know to the rest of the world!).  Smitty works for Anderson Ladd and has installed hardwood floors professionally for 16 years.  They typically do a lot of gymnasium floors, large commercial spaces and condos/apartment complexes.  He drove up on Friday and started working around 8am.  He finished up Sunday just before 6pm.  Deborah came up on Saturday morning with their 9 month old little girl named Lucy and spent the weekend with Emily.

Smitty & Deborah

Deborah & Lucy

Smitty with the Bets

For the hardwood flooring, we decided on an engineered hardwood from Mirage.  It is 5" wide Old Hickory in a Sierra stain.  We chose the engineered hardwood because if should expand/contract less than solid 3/4" hardwood.  It turned out beautifully!  A HUGE thank you to Smitty for all of his hard work!

Burning the midnight oil

Bathroom Tile

Bathroom tile has arrived.  Here is a sampling:

Stone for  master shower floor.  White subway tile for walls.

Kid's bath:  White subway tile with fun accent tile

Basement bath:  16"x16" tile with accent

Doors

Some of the doors have been hung.  The natural cherry will look very nice against the white trim.

Trim work is looking great!

Picnic Time

This Sunday we had our first family meal at the new home.  DQ on the hardwood floors!