Check out our new Kitchen/Dining Room Floor!

It has been awhile since I posted about our kitchen/dining room remodel. We were at a stand still for awhile after we got our cupboards and counter top installed. We have been waiting for our boards for our floor to dry before we could install them.

Last fall my hubby and his dad cut down some cherry logs and we decided to turn them into our floor! They cut the boards in January, but you have to wait for the wood to dry before you can install it. About a month ago we started cutting and planing (spelling?)the boards. A couple weeks ago we put it in the kiln to finish drying. Last week we ran it through the machine that makes the tongue and groove in the boards. We are very lucky that my father-in-law has his own wood shop and we were able to do all this ourselves! We saved thousands by making and installing the floor ourselves! It was actually fun to do it ourselves and see the progression of our boards. Well, last Thursday Kyle started installing the boards and we put polyurethane on it over the weekend. We are so happy with how it turned out. Now we are putting up the trim and doing some touch ups on the walls. I will post the finished photos as soon as we get it done!

Putting the laminate floor over the old 1970's linoleum before we put the new floor down! The kitchen is now located where our dining room was! We flipped it around and built a wall and tore one down! We built a new pantry, but we have to put permanent shelves up still. We have temporary redneck OSB board ones now! We are going to use some of the extra boards that we did not use from the floor to make the shelves!

Our boards in our garage waiting to be installed!


The boards all down before we applied the Polyurethane.

Applying the first coat of Polyurethane around Midnight on Saturday night!

Our Beautiful new flooring!

The wood will darken over the next year. I love the color and look of cherry.

More photos to come! I will try to post some more before and after photos of the completed kitchen/dining room!

Let the demo begin...

I am so EXCITED! We are finally starting the big demo of our kitchen and dining room! We have been planning on doing this for a couple years now. Last year our big project was our basement. We finished it with 2 new bedrooms and a family room.

Our kitchen/dining room right now is one big room with the kitchen part being really small (like small apartment size). We are moving our kitchen to the other side of the room, taking out the huge window and replacing it with a door (we will be building a deck off the back hopefully this summer). Where our kitchen is right now will become our dining room and we are opening up the wall between the kitchen/dining room and living room. This will make it more of an open floor plan. We are replacing the current floor and instead of spending thousands on new cupboards we are going to move the ones we have and sand and paint them. I actually really like our cupboards now, they have a nice decorated design to them.

It will be so nice to have a bigger kitchen and to not be so shut off from the rest of the house. I know it will be a mess for awhile but it is so worth it when we are finished!

I will be blogging with photos through out our demo.


Gotta love the "beautiful old flooring that I believe is the original from when it was built in the 70's. Sad thing is I actually like it better right now than the old, dirty carpet that has been in this house for years!



Emily did not want to walk on the dirty floor so she put my shoes on!