27 October 2006

House Work

New floor:



Old floors:



We're hiring someone to do the actual installation. The wisdom of this became apparent when MrV opened the top box and started classifying each individual piece of wood as to where he thought it would look best: "I think this one we should put this distance from the stairs; I don't like this one, and maybe they could put it in the closet." Lordy, it would take us a year to try various layouts to optimize the "design". The crew we hired estimated 1.5 days.

The fact that someone else is actually installing the floor doesn't mean that we get off the hook from doing much work. We have to move all the furniture out of the living room and dining room (this means finding some place for it all) and ripping up the old floor.

Which is a long, roundabout way of saying that not much knitting or sewing is going on.

2 comments:

Pensguys said...

Oooh! I hope to one day get new floors! Can't wait to see it finished.

chipper said...

ugh! good luck with all of that and I can honestly say that I'm kinda glad I live far away ;)