Happy New year, everyone. Thanks to my awesome family, we are watching football and hockey while simultaneously working on a million home improvement projects. We just finished, substantially, plunking down the new kitchen floor on the rental side -- it's made of this stuff, which was really not too bad to install, even over non-square floors. I repainted the rental side bathroom, we demoed the permanent side bathroom, and we're working on painting the middle rental-side bedroom after a monster wallaper-stripping project. Whee.
On the flooring stuff, a surprise to us was that the stuff I installed actually ended up being MUCH cheaper than just replacing the cheap crap that was there previously and damaged. We went into El Home Depot with the goal of pricing flooring, both for the living room and kitchen. We originally planned to basically replace cheap crap with equivalent cheap crap. But the cheap crap we had was going to be VERY expensive to replace once we got past installation and related supplies (installation being a necessity for garbage you can't really install yourself unless you're very, very patient). So I think the estimate for replacing cheap, glue-backed vinyl in sheets with the same stuff was about $580. Replacing with cut-your-own heavy vinyl tile was only $350. So the flooring guy at Home Depot saved us some buckage and we ended up with a much nicer end result.
I still haven't decided what to do with the entryway/living room, though.
Today we'll finish the painting, I'll replace the 80s faux oak cabinet in the rental side bathroom with a sleek new mirror, we'll think about adding lighting on that side, hope to make a dent in painting the middle bedroom on that side (it's now primed), and we'll possible install shutters and replace kitchen trim and install shutters in the bathroom in place of the hideous 90s forest-green mini-blinds.
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