New floor in living room

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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About six months ago, we bought a pallet load of 16 x 16 inch tile at a close out price. About a month later, we bought several cases of 12 x 12 inch tile to use as a border. We have been lackadaizical about installing it, but we’ve finally ripped out the old, moldy, filthy, rotten carpet and now have a wonderful new all tile floor in the living / dining room of our town house. (All work done by professionals, I assure you.) The room looks bigger, brighter, cleaner, and happier. We absolutely love it and I’m astonished at how happy it has made us feel.

On the down side, if there is one, some of our furniture is now kind of drab in comparison to the bright, shiny, new floor. Tomorrow starts the search for new end tables, a coffee table, and a couple of new table lamps. Not to mention a new refrigerator, which we decided on a few months ago but decided to wait for until the floor was done.

How mundane and pointless is this?

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Not at all. About a month before Christmas, a couple of incidents of, er, intestinal distress :eek: in one of our dogs provided the impetus for us to finally take out the scrap-carpet runners that had been nailed to our painted-and scuffed-plywood front hallway floor, lay down a new plywood base, and install carpet tile wall-to-wall in the whole area. I feel like a new woman when I look at the hallway, which is now actually worth the trouble to vacuum.

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You’ll love the tile - clean-up is super easy (assuming you were wise and got darkish grout, not like us a decade ago in our kitchen… well, it’s dark grout now). The only problem is when you drop a glass.

If you have rugs, that rug underlay stuff that keeps them from sliding is an absolute necessity, if you don’t already have it.