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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Aug 09 2004 : 8:59:47 PM
Today I pulled back a corner of the living room carpet..hoping to find hardwood floors..(our house is old...oldest parts are over 100 years old..but has had many many weird and stupid remodeling jobs done,so I didn't know what to expect) and lo and behold..hooray....just as I hoped...hardwood!! It is in good shape at least in that corner. My husband forbid me to tear it up until he can help...so guess what I am doing tomorrow after he leaves for work.....TAWANDA!!!!!!!!!! I can hardly wait to have the olive green UGGGGGLLLLLLYYYY carpet out of there!! He will love it when he sees it..he knows me well enough to expect it to be done when he gets home.
Jenny in Utah
Bloom where you are planted! |
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| hapyhrt |
Posted - Aug 11 2005 : 03:27:57 AM
Anyone ever have good results with just paint on a plywood floor base? I'm tired of our same old beige carpet in the livingroom and it's showing signs of wear from the pets.
I saw a site online once that had info on making a plywood floor look like floor boards by using a saw and scoring lines?? Just wondering how that would look in reality and if it would hold up to wear?
Any and all ideas are welcome! Oh, and budget wise we'd be doing this on a shoestring or less! Ü
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
"Think HAPPY Thoughts...any others aren't worth your time!" Ü |
| bramble |
Posted - Jul 30 2005 : 7:25:51 PM
Diane-- We arrived at Pergo by default, sort of like Jenny's story;a weird hodge podge of flooring under the lino.Dh was reluctant he is a die hard restorationist but I finally convinced him that this was a better option and he has finally agreed. He even told a client not too long ago that I was right , it's been a great choice for us. I have a friend who has had it now for about 16 years in a high traffic area and six rambuctious boys and it looks brand new. Go for it if you find a pattern you can live with. I know dh did a job where they made deliniation in use area by making "carpets" by changing the color/patern in that area. He didn't think he'd like that either but said it turned out well. So, if my husband is a convert that's saying something! Good luck with your project.
Sharon - I painted our front porch and stencilled brick to match the walk. It fools alot of people until they stand at the front door. Next is the laundry room floor...argghh!Haven't decided what to do with that yet, it's ugly!
with a happy heart |
| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 12:47:45 PM
Thanks for the info Clare. I will, we do have one nearby. The bad news is, my living room, dining room kitchen family room is all one big open room, floor wise anyway, so when I do it, I have to be able to do the entire room.Which is like 1000 sq feet. Ick. The good news is, the DH has been balking at the project, but since our dear little aged doggie friend has had a poopy mishap from one end of the house to the other, and we now have Oxyclean polka dots from getting the stains out, suddenly he agrees wood floors would be a GREAT idea.
Life is never dull in the country......... |
| Clare |
Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 12:41:45 PM
Diane, have you checked out lumberliquidators.com?? I may have misspelled that... anywho, they seem to have some good rates on wood flooring options. I've been eying their ads for a while now because this is also my dream. Maybe you could do one room at a time?
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 12:37:57 PM
Taylor, wall paneling is VERY easy to paint, and it ends up looking like wainscotting. All you need to do is wash it very well with TSP, then use a product called No Sand (both available at Home Depot or Lowe's), which is a chemical that adheres the paint to the paneling. Then just paint right over the paneling with a good stain killer type primer. My sister in law did this to her family room, and has had no trouble.
Aunt Jenny,YOU GO GIRL! Pergo flooring also comes in a marble and also tile looking florring, which might look good for your "uh-oh spot".You sound just like me, I'd have ripped out that yucky carpet too the minute the DH left.That's one of the great things about us farm girls isn't it? |
| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 12:31:33 PM
Cecelia, how do you like your Pergo floors? We live in a new manufactured house that I am slowly trying to make look "vintage", and I SO want to rip out the cookie cutter carpet and put in Pergo. I love wood floors, but real hardwood is just too expensive right now with kids in college and a single mom (daughter) to help. Doea anyone else have Pergo type floors? Let me know how they hold up girls!!! |
| chamlett4 |
Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 08:34:35 AM
Recently I have seen instructions for painting over wood paneling -- seems pretty easy to do and a lot less effort than pulling it all down and dealing with what is underneath. It looked really cozy also. |
| taylor |
Posted - Aug 16 2004 : 09:49:16 AM
Gosh, I am right smack in the middle of the biggest remodel I have ever tried to accomplish. My boyfriend and I just bought our second fixer-upper house together, the other one in Montana is rental for now until we can someday move back. The house here in Moscow is really cute understated victorian style built around 1920 - that's what the court says but I think the structure is much older. So we have one bathroom that was in desperate need of a new look - wood paneling is so out. When we started ripping stuff out we found layer upon layer of remodels all the way back to cloth hand painted wall paper and tar backed linoleum!
Jenny, I like the way you do things. I did that earlier this year with our dishwasher - the one that came with the house smelled bad so when Morgan was gone for the weekend I went down to the appliance store and bought a new one... saved the installation for him though!
xoxo Taylor |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Aug 12 2004 : 9:44:17 PM
My oldest son always teases me about that movie..since I love this old house so much and it is for sure a money pit. Oh well. I am still debating what to do on that floor. IT will be an entry way area from the front door and really visible. Right now I put a nice big braided rug to cover the ugly spot but will need to decide what to do. I am thinking maybe the brick tile, or I don't know...I guess I need to go to a flooring place and see what is out there next time I go to "the city".
Jenny in Utah
Bloom where you are planted! |
| cecelia |
Posted - Aug 12 2004 : 5:57:00 PM
Our house has all hardwood floors, except for the kitchen, where we put in a Pergo floor a few years ago. The stairway to the second floor had an u-g-l-y green carpet, which I promptly removed after our son threw up on it (guess I needed a good excuse). Surprise - hardwood floors on the stairs! Our kitchen, when we moved in, had fake brick on two walls. We couldn't decide what to do with it, I suggested painting it, but that would have been quite a job. The problem was, we didn't know what was under it. One evening, I just took hold of a corner of it (it was loose), pulled it off the wall (turned out to be paneling), and told me husband, now he could decide what to do with the wall. Now we have wainscotting and wallpaper.
Looks 100% better than fake brick. Jenny, fake brick is terrible - if you can get some kind of real brick or stone, it would be better than fake; I think even the "brick" tile you can put down looks better than fake brick, perhaps you could get some thin stone, like a facing, to put down on the floor. Keep in mind, it will be cold on your feet. We have a family room which has a real brick floor and it was really cold in winter until we put down some carpet. The room has 3 walls of solid stone, so the wind doesn't come through, but the window has to be replaced soon. What a job that will be, plus the bathroom has to be done. Having a house is like having a huge vacuum cleaner outside your house, sucking out all your time and money!
Did anyone ever see the movie "The Money Pit"? Hilarious movie, if you are fixing a house you have to see it!
Cecelia
ce's farm |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Aug 10 2004 : 6:21:02 PM
WEll, it took alot of the day..but that crummy carpet is history!! The kids helped and I enlisted my daugher in law to help me drag the stuff out and around the house out of sight when she came to pick up my little granddaughter at 4pm...one hour before husband gets home!! It all worked out. He was mad a little, but not surprized.
The flooring is great but has one area about 4 by 4 feet that has plywood..yikes! I am still trying to figure what to do there. It is straight across from the front door and it a corner..I think they may have done it while working on the furnace ducting or some such thing..who knows? The people who lived here from 1950 to the late 90's really did things the cheapest craziest way!! It is so funny to find some of their funny patch jobs or "make do" fix it jobs. You should see the roof..that is going to be a big one!! Anyway...I am thrilled. I think I may put down that fake brick or something and make an "entryway" across to the front door. It has a short divider thing that is right in line with the ugly spot..so that may work. I still have some staples to pull and some tack strip to rip up..but it looks so so so much better. I love to be tired from THAT sort of job!! The room looks so much cozier already!
Jenny in Utah
Bloom where you are planted! |
| Sherries Farm |
Posted - Aug 09 2004 : 11:15:45 PM
Great to hear that is a wood floor under the carpet. You will have your work cut out for you but since this is a true treasure to find, I'm sure you will be moving along, singing a song and happy as a clam to pull the old carpet up.
Let us know the outcome!
Sherrie
"When you care enough, you make it yourself."
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| sleepless reader |
Posted - Aug 09 2004 : 9:52:19 PM
TAWANDA!!!! Back at you, Jenny! We pulled up our living room carpet last year and it was the best thing we ever did for the house.Isn't it gross when you pull up the carpet to find all the dirt that manages to get beneath the carpet and pad? Yuck!
Now we are on day 7 of a "three day tops" kitchen floor project. We thought we had the same hardwood floor under the linoleum as we found in the livingroom. Alas, it is under plywood! Seeing as how we live in Pandora's box,(our house was built in 1935, '45, '67, '75, and '98) we decided to paint the ply! I now have a beautiful tile red wood floor. We may be able to move the kitchen stuff back in by Thursday, if the humidity doesn't keep the oil-based floor paint from drying. Oh well, at least we've had a few meals out:) I wish you the best in your reclaiming project!
Sharon
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Posted - Aug 09 2004 : 9:04:29 PM
Jenny, you are so funny! You ole bee charmer you. Nothing prettier and warmer than a beautiful hardwood floor. |
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