When I walked into our condo in March of 2007, I remember asking the agent, “is there anything else we can put on these floors?” Unfortunately, we bought our condo too late in the game to choose the flooring we wanted. We have a very open floor plan that includes ugly, damaged laminate in the kitchen and fuzzy looking carpet in the living room, dining room, and hallways. We always knew we would change out the flooring in the main part of the house. Naturally we assumed that we would put down some nice bamboo hardwood floors so we could have an eco-friendly, wear resistant floor. At one point, Adam event wanted to polish the concrete that was underneath the carpet. The hardwood plan soon turned sour when I actually started looking at hardwood floors. After picking up several samples and pushing on them with my fingernails, I realized that I was about to spend a lot of money on something that did not appear to be any more durable than the crappy laminate we have now. That is when I turned to the idea of tile. Now, I know this is an unconventional move, and many of you might be saying in your head, that is a horrible idea. Fortunately, we are not your typical white picket fence, 2.5 children type of people, so you should expect some odd things from us once in a while. Below you will see some pictures of rooms that I think are super modern and beautiful. I love anything that strikes the eye as a little different, so this seems to fit the bill. A bonus is that Adam has actually almost committed to taking a free DIY tile class with me. This could be the biggest project or disaster we have made yet!!! So, what do you think? Have I gone too far with this one? Is this an unsavory decision?
I think the first two look good, but the last one kinda looks a bit institutional. Did you look at oak or mahogany wood? You shouldn’t be able to press your fingernail in those. It’s weird they would give you samples that you could do that with…
So when does the project begin?
My parents put bamboo in their house and it looks amazing. He was afraid it would be too soft, too. He brought home like 5 different samples.. 3 hardwood and 2 bamboo. He dropped a hammer from waist height on all of them and believe it or not the bamboo had the least damage. They’ve had it for about 3 years now and the only damage there is on it is where the refrigerator repairman moved the fridge too roughly and theres four scratch marks where it slid across the bamboo.
It’s REALLY beautiful. I love hardwood and I didn’t think I’d like it but it looks amazing. Maybe you need to look at several different brands?
You should check out Carpet World on Military Highway. They have some super cool tile that almost looks like wood. I think you would like it a lot!
Thanks for the reply! Adam and I are not seeing eye to eye about color, project start date and the details. I will probably wait until the summer. That is when teachers do everything!
We are going to be looking a lot of places including online. It is amazing how much tile can cost.
I did not know you had a blog. I am just getting myself back into the world of blogging and I am really enjoying it. Adam says he is going to help me make the site look better, but it is a good hobby that is free. I need more free hobbies. Let me know if you ever go back to a MAC class. I would love to join you. Was it good? Did you learn much? I am sure I would since I don’t know much about make-up.
I just don’t want straight lines