Flip house

With the incoming of spring and the 'newness' feeling it brings, we decided to take on a HUGE project that we are convinced happened in a moment of tempary madness, insanity, a small mental break. We baught a HUD home that looked... well it had better days. After gutting the whole house (Cabinets, counter tops, flooring and all) we are painting, putting in all new flooring, cabinets and countertops. I will get you a few before picts, during picts and after picts so you can see the transformation as it goes! hope you find it as exciting as we do! Sorry this beginning picture is so bad!

New Carpet

Our great installers just installed this carpet in a garage office.  The owners LOVE it. They were a little hesitant about putting in a pettern, nut after it was installed they wanted us to put more of it in.

They put it on a pad to help with some insulation in keeping the office warmer.

The stairs turned out so good as well.  They skirted the walls with the carpet as well and it looked really nice.

Just the closet.

As we finishded the garage we also installed carpet into their home. Not comercial carpet and not a pattern, but it looked very nice.

Work in progress

As the time came to replace our old flooring with something new and different and durable.  Obviously being around flooring pretty much all the time, we had to make it more complex. But the look that was achieved was well worth the wait.

The great thing about the floor is that it is not tile or wood.  It is a luxury vinyl plank.  It is so easy to maintain and very durable.  Being that it isn't tile, it isn't as cold as tile or as hard. 

(Sorry I know this isn't the greatest picture)

We chose not to grout our floor to give it a stone look.  But the grout (usually a downfall, is grout because it stains, this grout doesn't stain.)  We do cabinets as well.

                                

This is showing the transition from the kitchen to the dining room.  Being that it is all the same type flooring there is no edge or moldings.

The entry is done in wood look, as the third transition.  We had engineered wood in the entry and it was easily damaged.  This stuff is very good looking and durable. 

( Just a closer look...)



To sock or not to sock?

We get couples in all the time arguing over if they should leave their shoes on in the house or take them off?  Our answer to that is yes.  Does that not answer the question? well let me explain.  Shoes on carpet isn't great, all the dirt, rocks and other things that shoes drag in is something that we don't really like on our carpet.  Bare feet on your carpet is worse... That's right, the oils on your skin is so bad for your carpet. The fibers tend to stick together when oils become present in your carpet making it look bad.  So what is the correct answer for what should you walk in on your carpet? SOCKS! Socks are the best things to walk on your carpet in, well clean socks that is.  Clean socks keep the oils out and you don't (or you mom tells you that you shouldn't) walk in them outside, so you don't have to worry about them tracking the outside stuff in.

Bathroom

When we decided to do our bathroom, before and after picts I am sure would be ideal. But we missed the before, and the after is still there so that was easy. 

We picked a larger tile to make it seem that our bathroom was bigger, because we had less grout lines.  Also with less grout lines it is easier to clean and maintain. We still haven't gotten around to our shower but when we do be sure I will get before and after pictures so that you can see what an improvement it can make.

We Love It!

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Portable Stairs

A man came in with some well crafted hand made stairs ( that had no carpet) when he told us the story of who they were for he touched our hearts.  A individual who was loosing both legs needed the stairs to get into bed.  With a family and health problems and what seemed to be everything going wrong, no complaints were heard. The ability to remain positive helps everything.  Touched us here to say the least!

JANUARY beginnings

With January comes new things for our customers. We just returned home from the Surfaces conventon with some new amazing carpets at a fantastic deal!! Make sure that you stop by and check out our new inventory!