We installed Mayflower Sundance Hand Scraped Birch engineered hard wood, from Lumbar Liquidators.
Day 2 (Sunday) started off much better than Day 1.
We only had a few hours to work on it before going to our Sunday night group, but we made about 4-5 feet of progress and generally had a much easier time of it than on day 1.
Amazing what a little experience can do for you.
Day 3 was in the middle of the week, and it consisted of about an hour's worth of work and 3 rows of progress. My mom came over to help, and I was glad to hear her acknowledge that it is, indeed, more difficult than it sounds. It's helpful to have somebody else there to keep you laughing (instead of cursing) at how ridiculously tedious it is.
It was a pretty busy week for us, so we didn't have time to work on the floor together again until this morning.
But today, we finished! I should have taken a picture, but we had to switch the saw blade from the miter saw (used for cutting each plank to the appropriate length) to the table saw (used for cutting length-wise along the planks) for the last row.
I'm glad Daniel has had a little experience with woodworking (thanks, Grandpa McKinney!), because the saws are intimidating to me. But Daniel does great with them.
The last piece! Now we just need to buy a piece of T molding to make the transition from the hallway to the bedroom. I'll look for it sometime this next week.
Next up for the nursery: baseboards! I was looking at this forum about baseboard heights and am pretty sure we'll go with a 6-inch height.
I'm on the fence about whether to do quarter-round shoe molding in addition to the baseboards. I may wait and see how it looks with just the baseboards, and then decide.
LOOKS GREAT!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's wonderful! It really does look beautiful. Dad says it looks terrific, too!
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