Sens rug?
Shaun and I spent about 3 hours at Home Depot today. As many of you know we want to sell our town home in the spring and find something in the west/south end of town, closer to both of our work places. This commute is a bitch, especially for Shaun who works in Kanata. If one of us worked a lot closer we'd stay for sure - we do like the east end a lot - but at this time in our lives it's just not in the cards.
So anyways, before we can list the house we have some renos to do. All cosmetic but important nonetheless. We went today to look at flooring and back splash tile.
The guy that helped us, Marcel, was awesome. We've ordered some beige carpeting for the upstairs hallway, stairs, office and guest bedroom. It's a nice pile with an 8oz. underpad. Today they gave us an estimate based on our measurements but they have their own rep come in to do measuring before they order and install. I'm very excited about the new carpeting, and almost wish we could stay to enjoy it. Almost.
For the front hall and kitchen we were looking at this new type of laminate flooring that looks just like ceramic tile but is a bit less expensive and there's no sub-floor needed (just underlay). We'd picked out a really nice charcoal colour to go with the new kitchen countertops we installed, but Marcel suggested, because we're going to move anyway, to go with something a little less costly but still nice-looking and durable.
So we got this new resilient flooring, which has a 25-year guarantee. It's kind of a cross between laminate and peel-and-stick, but there's no underlay required, and you can install and cut it yourself. So we got a very neutral-but-bright creamy colour. We can actually install it right over the peel-and-stick that's currently in the kitchen, but we'll have to rip up the old ceramic in the front hall. Buying this stuff saved us about $400 which we were very happy about.
We checked quickly into the back splash for the kitchen, as I have decided on white glossy subway tiles, but they are temporarily sold out, so we'll save that for another time. We want to wait and see how quickly the Home Depot can have our new carpet installed; we'll wait until they've finished before we work on the front hall and kitchen.
And as we were leaving the flooring department we saw this awesome Senators area rug! I've flagged it for our Senators basement, which will be developed in full once we move into our new house. I've got the whole design mapped out, including NHL paint colours, and it's going to be so awesome for watching hockey games.
An overall very productive day at the Home Depot. Very glad they could help!
So anyways, before we can list the house we have some renos to do. All cosmetic but important nonetheless. We went today to look at flooring and back splash tile.
The guy that helped us, Marcel, was awesome. We've ordered some beige carpeting for the upstairs hallway, stairs, office and guest bedroom. It's a nice pile with an 8oz. underpad. Today they gave us an estimate based on our measurements but they have their own rep come in to do measuring before they order and install. I'm very excited about the new carpeting, and almost wish we could stay to enjoy it. Almost.
For the front hall and kitchen we were looking at this new type of laminate flooring that looks just like ceramic tile but is a bit less expensive and there's no sub-floor needed (just underlay). We'd picked out a really nice charcoal colour to go with the new kitchen countertops we installed, but Marcel suggested, because we're going to move anyway, to go with something a little less costly but still nice-looking and durable.
So we got this new resilient flooring, which has a 25-year guarantee. It's kind of a cross between laminate and peel-and-stick, but there's no underlay required, and you can install and cut it yourself. So we got a very neutral-but-bright creamy colour. We can actually install it right over the peel-and-stick that's currently in the kitchen, but we'll have to rip up the old ceramic in the front hall. Buying this stuff saved us about $400 which we were very happy about.
We checked quickly into the back splash for the kitchen, as I have decided on white glossy subway tiles, but they are temporarily sold out, so we'll save that for another time. We want to wait and see how quickly the Home Depot can have our new carpet installed; we'll wait until they've finished before we work on the front hall and kitchen.
And as we were leaving the flooring department we saw this awesome Senators area rug! I've flagged it for our Senators basement, which will be developed in full once we move into our new house. I've got the whole design mapped out, including NHL paint colours, and it's going to be so awesome for watching hockey games.
An overall very productive day at the Home Depot. Very glad they could help!
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