Wood you like a new floor? Aw, jeez, that’s a terrible pun.

So, if you may recall from previous posts (1, 2, 3 and 4), home improvement jobs are something I enjoy until I actually start doing them.  That didn’t keep us from starting a new project:  installing a new wood laminate floor.

Yesterday, after being dazzled by a sparkly flyer from Lowe’s, we decided to make the plunge and buy it.  We’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but never quite wanted to spend the money.  Damn you, you persuasive flyer!  We each had something we liked that the other didn’t (for assorted reasons, some financial, some purely aesthetic), but found a compromise we can both live with.  Looking at it in the store, it seemed fine, but it’s hard to say what it will look like in a real house environment.  Well, we snapped together a few boards in the living room just to see and it’s definitely going to be nice.  Amazingly, the wife and I are both off over the Thanksgiving holiday and following weekend, so that’s what we’ll be doing.

I’ll try to do like last time and show the progression.  I’ll also keep a lookout for Cookie Monster.