4. install hardwood
5. install white socket plugs
6. put light switch on the other side of wall
7. chair -OR- crown molding
8. window/trim molding
So this is the first entry of renovating my 1915 victorian style home. My sisters dubbed it the 'Anne Frank' room because it sits adjacent to a room that is only accessed through ANOTHER room. There isn't a hallway to access it, just walk right on through a bedroom to this room. I think this room has an identity crisis compared to the other rooms.
I sketched out the design of the 2nd floor to illustrate my complaint/story:
2-D View from Kyle's room to Anne Frank's room.
The previous owner, who was foreclosed on, added this room to the house. From the looks of it, he didn't sketch/design the room and then build, but build then look back and said "opps, i messed this up! There's no way to access this room except to go through a room! I am an idiot." I also believed that he was blind or needed a change in his prescriptions because when you walk into the room, you have to take a step DOWN, not STEP ACROSS to a FLUSHED floor like normal homes (pics below).
The not-so 'FLUSHED' room
Originally, I believed this room was constructed be used as a playroom, but in the meantime, it will serve as an office or a studio. I got sick of the tattered,worn, old carpet. To keep up with the look of the home, I decided to invest in installing hardwood flooring or laminate.
I've been shopping around for weeks and tried to find a floor/pattern I really liked. Then on one Sunday afternoon, Kyle, sis, and I decided to visit our not-so-local neighborhood Lowes (Perkins).
I visited the hardwood flooring and saw them bastards on sale! These bastards though, were laminate flooring -a close match to natural hardwood. Hell, I didn't care, the floorboards looked good AND it was on SALE! Many of know don't know but I am the cheapest bastard. I'm very compulsive when things are on sale.
They were heavily discounted. They were discounted 50% off their price which turned out to be $35 a stack (83 cents per square) which is a deal compared to other stores/dealers which offered me $1.50 per square.
We kind of ripped of Lowes because I looked at the original packaging and it said 8 boards to a carton but we instead stuffed 10 boards to a pack. We also got 10 boards of other laminate mixed into purchase. I've read that when you install laminate, try to random the pattern. Hell, I'm going random - 10 boards of different colors/styles. Shit, Lowes wouldn't care if 10 different boards disappeared.
Total purchase: 140ish dollars. Not bad at all. If the guy from the flooring department didn't show up at the register, we could've got the entire thing for $35.00 cause the cashier was retarded and didn't know how to calculate 50% off the entire flooring NOT 50% off a single box.
The vapor barrier/padding took me forever on deciding where to purchase. Home Depot was outrageously expensive, Home Liquidators 2nd place and, Lowes took 3rd place. I found that surplus warehouse had the padding for $15 per 100 sq ft! I bought two because the room (if you did the math is 131 sq ft) was a bit larger.
30 bucks and some change, not bad at all. Buying the vapor barrier/padding took me 2 weeks to purchase because I went everywhere trying to figure out who was the cheapest.
Installing the bad boy:
So you think this would be easy. Let me remind you, the guy who built the add-on before me did it by himself. I read everywhere that you should remove the baseboard moulding. Well guess what!? Instead of nailing the baseboard and calling it quits, the retard installed it with GLUE! When I started prying the board off the wall, it took the wall with it (damn you to hell)!!
So I'm pissed off at this point swearing here and there and just started to put the floor together. The first 5 rows were a learning experience in installing and laying them together while navigating around the floorboard moulding. I had some problems on the way because my mitre saw doesn't extend or have a wider circumference of a blade. I opted to use my table saw but the problem is... it's a bit off... like... .05 degrees. Wutever, look at the pics of the floor. I will post more pics as the work progresses.
With the paint, but still with the shitty floor:
Pics with the nice, new floor.
Look at the yellow tags! ON SALE!
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