Photos of New Hardwood Flooring in Cottage Living Room

We've finished up the hardwood flooring in the living room and hallway, and wow, I'm so glad that's behind us! Things were a little crazy here for a while, though, with our furniture and things crammed into the kitchen and any other available space.


It took a couple of weekends to complete the living room, hallway, and foyer...


Oh look. Yet another back end shot of hubs. He's going to love me forever.


We finally could remove the unsightly tile in the foyer.


The felt that went down before the flooring was installed...


I don't know if you remember, but there was once a small coat closet in this area, but I thought it would look much nicer opened up and a narrow table/cabinet/hutch put in it's place. {I'm dying to put fresh flowers in this sunny little nook!}


A few living room shots before we moved all our furniture back into place...



The kids are loving sliding around on the floor now. We've had a few minor injuries so far, but I guess that's what happens when you purposely go careening down the hallway using a blanket as a sled! {Don't worry...I'm fine!}



Speaking of the hallway, here it is. I think the hallway has a little more going for it now with the new flooring, raised ceiling {from 7ft to 8ft}, and solid wood doors.


The hallway is still an unfinished space as is our foyer, which now holds more boxes of flooring and was a very convenient place to put things while I took these photos, like extra furniture and elderly corgis.


I wasn't going to put a rug down so that I could just relish the new flooring, but I've always loved this wool rug that I've had for a decade now. It's showing some wear and doesn't quite "go" with the red in the kitchen, but it's a cozy place for the kids to play legos or just sprawl out on the floor with a book.


And now I present to you hub's ancient wall speakers. I usually try to crop them out of photos because they are so ugly, but - it is what it is. The weird thing is that we don't even use them, they aren't hooked up to a receiver, and the receiver doesn't even work. {Incidentally, surround sound for tv/movies really stresses me out though music is a different story.} It's true - I really, really hate those speakers. All four of them. But I suppose there is nothing I can do about it until we replace them with something low profile because hubs 'aint budgin'. I understand a lot of things but this doesn't happen to be one of them. I can't complain too much, though, because hubs never wanted a house full of hardwood and was really just as happy with carpet:)

Anyway, our ceiling is pretty high and I look forward to adding some white beadboard to bring down the height a bit. It will be about the height of our fireplace mantel. We've also bought a new, beefier mantel and will be giving our fireplace an overhaul. Finally, I can't wait to hide that popcorn with some pine planks like we used in the kitchen.


But those are future projects...Right now, I'm just happy to finally be enjoying our floors!

Twice Remembered is a Finalist - Still Time to Vote! (Repost)

I am over the moon thrilled to share with my blog readers some very exciting news! All of your votes for our projects that we entered into the first round of the Repair-Home contest really paid off! I entered projects in 11 different catagories, and in 10 of those categories, our projects were voted #1! YOU through your votes made that happen and hubs and I can't thank you enough! I have a feeling that 2010 is going to be a great year for Twice Remembered due to this contest because we are finally going to get to complete projects that we've been putting off for a long time!

I have a feeling that 2010 is going to be a great year for Twice Remembered!Not only did your votes help us to place at the top in individual categories, but it put two of our projects into the final round of the contest. {There are only five finalists' projects total.} This final round ends on December 15th. The winning project receives a prize of $1000 {not too shabby, eh?!}.

So once again, I'm asking for your help and vote. {I appreciate your patience with me and my "like-a-child-at-Disneyworld" exuberance, hehe, but I've never done anything like this before and am thrilled that we've reached this final stage.}

The two Twice Remembered projects that made the final round are our Cottage Kitchen Ceiling project and our Kitchen Windows and French Doors project. You can click either photo below to be taken to the main voting page to cast your vote and to see more of the project photos if you haven't seen them already.

Cottage Kitchen Plank Ceiling

Kitchen Windows and Doors

Thank you once again!