New Basement Floor

Andy has been working hard on the basement for a few weeks now, and we've finally decided on new flooring. Andy wanted a wood floor look, and I wanted a waterproof and durable flooring in case our basement flooded or our future children turn out to be terrors who ruin everything. We compromised on these vinyl "wood" planks from Home Depot. They stick together and float over the concrete. They are fairly simple to install as they just stick one end to the other, but Andy decided to make a beautiful herringbone pattern which has caused a lot more work, measuring and cutting.

Here is the result so far:

The paint looks really drab here, but I assure you that it's a bold bright pumpkin orange.

In case you think we're close to finished with this project, I will reveal the other half of the room:

Slowly but surely...

Basement Project

We have (Andy has?) been hard at work on our basement makeover. We have wood paneling on most of the walls, and didn't want to re-do that, so we used wall spackle to fill the cracks on the top half of the walls. After sanding and washing, we painted the top half Butterscotch by Martha Stewart, and the bottom half Glass of Milk, also by my namesake. You can see in the last picture here that we've ripped up most of the carpet and all of the wood carpet tacking that surrounded the room. We are pleased with the condition of the cement floor underneath, and the battle currently continues about laminate vs. wood floor.

Here is our computer generated vision:

And the progress, don't mind my re-upholstery mess:

And where we began: