Let the demolition begin...

We are in the process of ripping up tile and carpet from the entire ground floor of the house... we ended up with a pretty nice tax return, so we decided to use the money to invest in home improvements. The biggest one we have wanted to do for awhile now is changing out our naaaasty carpet and lame tile to wood floors. After doing a ton of research, we decided we really loved both the look and durability of vertical-cut bamboo floor. The bamboo is carbonized, meaning it is steamed in a giant bath which actually heats up the sugars inside the bamboo and carmelizes it... so the color is the same the whole way through - it's not stained at all. So we got ourselves about 1000 square feet of it. Rick just picked it up from Lumber Liquidators today. It has to acclimate to our house for at least a week, which is fine, cause we have TON of demo work to do... we are ripping out all our carpet in our downstairs area and then we have to remove the tile. The entryway was a bit of a challenge because (unfortunately lol) the original installers actually did it RIGHT and used a slipsheet under the tile... making it a nice, strong, nearly indestructable bond with the floor. So Rick will be renting one of those fun tile-ripper-outer machines from Home Depot so that we can get all the kitchen tiles (and the remainder of the thinset from the entryway) out. Once that's all done, I think (hope... lol!) the rest of the work should be pretty straightforward. Rick's a pretty handy guy and knows how to put down a floor very well. Of course he's never done wood before... lol.

So... hopefully we will have the start of wood floors, anyway, by the end of the weekend! I am so stoked. I can't wait to see it all come together. I will update as the process continues!

Better get back downstairs and get to rippin' out the carpet. And the tile. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!