FANCIER floors!

We have an actual floor in the kitchen! We finished installing the floating cork floor last night. Not only does it look really nice (especially compared to the lovely plywood floor that we had been living with), but it is soft and sounds nice. Since it's a floating floor, it'll still float and move a little bit until we get the baseboard down.

But now, nothing stands in our way of putting in our cabinets! Except for maybe the fact that we haven't ordered any yet.


Underlayment (foam) for the cork. You can see the metal edging strip we put down to frame the cork against the adjoining wood floors.


The cork going in...once we got started, it went pretty quickly. It just took us a while to figure out just how this very simple click-together system worked.


Adam did some very intricate cutting in order to get the panels to fit around the moldings. (Reagan's brain couldn't handle it.)


Halfway done last Sunday.


Lookin' pretty good, no?


After Monday night's work...which was done all by Reagan's self. (Yes, I even got it under the stove.) This just goes to show how easy this stuff is to put down.


After complete installation last night! Fiver likes the new floor, too.

It's especially good for wrestling.

Now we have to get another coat of sealant on it, then we can put the sink back temporarily. Trying to wash a large stock pot in the tiny bathroom sink has been a larger challenge than putting down the floor.