Introduction to our flooring!

So carpet has been my nemesis forever because of my allergies. They're real people. Also, I know that vacuuming the surface doesn't get the floor underneath clean and that grosses me out. I thought apartment carpet was bad, but then we got this house. Apparently a ginormous Lab lived here which is cool. Slobs who don't clean up after a Lab are not cool.

Of course I love wood floors but we just used our savings for a deposit and we'd probably be moving before we could afford wood. My next favorite is tile. They have tiles that look like wood- those too are out of my league.

That left me with laminate. I had a bad taste in my mouth when talking about laminate. I thought it looked terrible, bubbled and I hate orange oak tones. So here I was one day goofing off on pinterest when I find a pin that had like 2000 likes/re-pins. The floor is super gorgeous. It turned out to be laminate! So I immediately guessed it would still be out of my price range but the blog said it was at SAM'S CLUB! Well that's basically Wal-Mart so I assumed it was crappy.

This lady (http://www.theyellowcapecod.com/2011/10/more-on-floor.html) has all these comments of people saying they put in like 2000 sq feet and they have pets and they drop stuff and they are normal like me. So we went to Sam's and bough a box.Then we let the dogs run like crazy all over it. No damage. I was sold. It's called Select Surfaces Canyon Oak and it comes with its own foam backer and its the wide plank and IT'S NOT CARPET!

 

I could only afford one room so we decided we would start with the master bedroom because that's where we slept and I hated waking up with a stuffy nose and sore throat.

Boxes for the bedroom. You have to let them sit in the humidity and temperature of your house for at least 48 house before installation.

 Pulling up the carpet and pad. Look at all the stains! Gross.

Ry put down the moisture barrier with a lot of overlap and then got to work on laying the boards. There was so much dust from the carpet pad breakdown that just got everywhere. 

Love how the boards install SUPER tightly and also that there are about 6 different patterns so it doesn't look so homogenous.