We're Floored up!

Well, installing the floor in the master bedroom was relatively painless. And in my case, it is with some degree of surprise and pride that I can mean that literally as I fully expected to return home minus at least one digit, and perhaps even an organ.

But no!  Aside from a few of the standard speed bumps (like the need for some precision cutting in some areas), it went rather well.

Now the living room is still a little messy...

...but that will be a quick fix next weekend.

So after everything the room had been cleared, swept, etc, we started with this:

Got a little cork padding down, then started fitting the "boards" all nice...

And just a few hours later (pizza break included): Bam!  We were in "that's more like it" territory.

We're going again next weekend and hopefully between now and then we'll be able to find a type of baseboard to mask the inevitable imperfections at the edges (in fairness, those are mostly caused by walls that are about as straight as Steve and Chris, seen below).  We can then restore the living room to some kind of state of normalcy.

The Coolest Tool Ever!

I ain't no fool. I know full well that such a provocative post title will prompt Kathy to try to come up with a cooler tool.

But she will fail.  *sad trombone*

Brace yourself for awesome and get a load of...The Shark!!!

I might never use it, and I still would have bought it.  Because it LOOKS like a SHARK!  Look at it!!

It's not just a utility knife, either.  It's a wire stripper, too.  When the hell am I ever going to strip a wire??  Never!  But who cares?  It looks like a shark!  It even has gills!  They're pointless, but they're cool!

We bought this bad boy during our visit this past weekend.  This trip went significantly better than the last.  The furniture was moved out of the master bedroom with minimum profanity, and the carpet came up easily. 

For the most part.  It appears that the vanity (deep right on the listing picture below) is built directly on top of the carpet in that part of the room.

Good friggin' thinking!

So I had to whip out the guns and tear that strip out.  There's still a frayed part sticking out, but that is when THE SHARK will come into play (once I've built up the nerve to take it out of the package).

We also bought the required screwdriver...huh...tip (What word am I looking for?!) in order to remove those shower doors from the previous trip down.  Rod and curtain are going up soon ('cause one is pretty well useless without the other).

Because of the light colour of the walls, we went with a dark wood floor (well...it looks like wood...).  We're going to go again on the weekend of the 23rd and see about getting that finished.  If it goes well, other rooms will get similar treatment.

We got to enjoy a little time in the sun, sitting on the rocks on snow beach (see previous post).  The only eyebrow-raiser were rather large footprints that, upon closer inspection, were not left by a person.  After careful investigation, and based on recent local weather patterns, I can only assume they were left by one of these:

So we'll have to watch out for that. I think there's a spray you can buy...