A Long Time Coming - New Flooring

We've been wanting to replace the flooring in our kitchen an eat in area for a couple of years.  Like some other things in this house, the contractor skimped on areas and the vinyl in the kitchen was one of them.  The only good thing I can say about it is it hid dirt well.

We had hard wood in our foyer, hallway and downstairs 1/2 bath but it was cheap also and I never really liked it, but we were stuck with it.

One of my goals was to replace the whole thing some day and this summer we decide now was the time!

 

Here's another view of the vinyl flooring we had.  The only reason I'm showing you photos of it is so you can see what a change the new wood flooring made.

Here's the after photos.......

 

 

We carried the wood into our hallway, foyer and 1/2 bath and I'm thrilled that we no longer have a transition between the kitchen/eat in area and the hallway.

I also love that we decided to do recessed wood floor registers.  We had two of them, one in the eat in area of the kitchen and one in the foyer.

We love our new flooring and think it was worth every penny we paid and the best part was we didn't DIY it, which we normally would, but decided.....nah.......   :)

Now that the flooring is done, I've been weeding out my cabinets getting rid of some of my kitchen goods.  I was using red as an accent color in the kitchen, but I'm little tired of that, so I'm slowing switching out some of my things and painting and upcycling others.   I'll share all that later.

Thanks for stopping by!