Oh yea…wood floors!

David and I installed our own wood flooring.  Our house is 1800 sq feet I think 1300 of that is our wood flooring.  The rest is tile that we installed ourselves.

Putting the wood floor down was not hard.  It was just time consuming and had to be precise.  We had to put down a barrier between the concrete floor and our wood.  We used a heavy plastic mat like thing then put our wood down.  I LOVE knotty pine flooring but we went with a deep cherry wood and it is gorgeous with the color of paint for the walls that we chose. 

Both my husband and I were 48 or 49 when we did this in the dead heat of summer in Florida!!  Of course we waited until our air conditioner was working so our house and wood flooring would be acclimated.  But we laid all the tile in 100 + degree weather and I thought I would just die of the heat…LOL

Deb

Yes, Pewter is a pretty gray color. 

It would be really eye catching with white trim.

I have learned one thing about having color on my walls instead of white or off white.   When I hang a picture on the wall I better make sure that is exactly where I want it!  Because of the different colors on my walls it isn't that easy to "fix" a hole from a tack or scrape on the wall.  I remember using toothpaste to fix a hole in my dry wall.  But with paint like caramel apple that I have you have to plug the hole and then dab some paint we have put away over the fix.  That toothpaste more or less just blended into the wall color.  So much easier to fix a ding in the dry wall with neutral colors…LOL

Deb

It certainly could and I have seen a little water on the floor close to the side that you see in the picture but we have a large overhang  (remember the TX sun) and that pretty much takes care of it    And the other side is against our deck and it has the same overhang as well as a canopy type thing over the deck….Hard to explain.  Maybe I have a picture…I'll check.

But to answer the question, water blowing in has never really been an issue….and the furniture is all porch furniture from before and the pillows were made from dish towels and the green checked pillows from a sheet at Big Lots, and the Navy print on the rattan was expensive material but I bought it at a discount for $1.00 per yard.  It's beautiful fabric.  My chemo brain won't release the info or I would tell you the name of it but I just can't recall…so if anything got wet or ruined, it wouldn't be a big loss.

That was the message that I was trying to get across…You can do a lot of decorating at not a lot of cost.

CindyP said:Miss Dana, did you close on the house????  And any redecorating started yet?????

Yes!   We DID close….right in the middle of buying, decorating, wrapping for Christmas AND studying for my final exams…Whew, talk about a busy time!!! 

As far as decorating….we tore up the beige carpet and put down natural solid hickory floors.  Then, we tore out the slate unvented gas logs and put in a stacked ledge stone huge fireplace.  Yay!

I've been watching craigslist and visiting junky antique shops and literally filled the whole house with antiques, quilts, and cute nic-nacks for about $2500.  There are some amazing deals to be had right now!

I'll be posting some pictures soon.  My camera battery died and I just charged it. 

One thing I've learned though is….there are BEARS all over and apparently they love sunflower seeds so I can't hang my birdfeeder!   Pictures coming soon!!