Cat on the Rug

Our cat Gracie found the only rug on our new wooden floors today. We keep looking at rugs but haven't been able to find the area carpet for the living and dining rooms that we like and will fit within our budget!

Our New Wooden Floors!

The hardwood floors were finished yesterday. Now the finish has to set for the next seven days. THEN we'll have to move everything back into these three rooms! We are really happy with how they turned out.

Living room looking into the dining room

Looking at the entryway from the living room

Stained Floors

Our house with the storage van for the floor guys who are doing our floors.

Stained wood--done today. No walking on it. Two finishes will be applied next week.

Sawdust over everything. They filled an entire garbage can with sawdust they swept up.

How Our Cat Copes

With all the noise and ruckus from our floors being redone, our cat often goes into seclusion in our main bathroom, which is where she sleeps at night.

Continued Home Saga

 There is this big pod in our driveway for the biggest furniture in the front three rooms of our house: the entryway, the living room, and the dining room. I park my car on the left side and must maneuver around the pod to back out. Chuck rescues me often!

 The openings into the kitchen and the family room are sealed off with plastic sheeting. This is the entryway with all the boxes of wood piled to the right.

Yesterday was their first full day of floor preparation. They ground down the cement flooring and even poured more cement. More leveling today before they start laying down the wood. You can see how they are measuring the uniformity of the flatness with the measuring devices on the floor.

Our cat is not too happy with the noise and blockage from her roaming areas.

Dining Room Color!

After much indecision and paint samples, I decided upon the painting color for our dining room. Samples have been a dark purple that looked brown, rose, orange, and peach. This morning I awoke with the idea of celery green! Chuck got that sample, and we decided to go with that for our dining room that used to have dark green wallpaper with pink and red flowers and birds on it.

Here is a picture of Chuck painting. In the background you can see the boxes of wood for the new floor. They'll start on that on Monday.

And here is what the space looked like with the wallpaper (and furniture):

Friday Five: HAPPY!

Today's Friday Five for RevGalBlogPals is brought to us by Revkjarla:

Give us five "I haz a happy"s...... for your Friday Five.  AND, bonus points for photos!!!!!

1. I am happy that I could visit youngest daughter MJ in Utah this past week and also see autumnal leaves!

MJ at Liberty Park in Salt Lake City

 2. I am happy that daughters AE and KA came to visit in Austin around Halloween and that we could see them, our granddaughter Avery and her parents.

Avery with KA at pumpkin patch

AA, Avery, and DC at pumpkin patch

3. I am very happy that husband Chuck is painting the walls that used to be covered with wallpaper!

Chuck painting out entryway this morning!

4. I am going to spend two days at Lebh Shomea, silent retreat center, in Sarita, TX next week.

5. I am happy that I have good friends, some of whom are pictured below.

Home Is Different!

Chuck sent me this picture of the dining room wallpaper on the floor while I was in Utah visiting youngest daughter MJ. I just got home tonight and see that Chuck moved china, books, and furniture into bedrooms and into a pod storage unit that is on our driveway. He arduously stripped wallpaper from both the entry way and the dining room. I appreciate all his hard work while I was having fun with MJ in Salt Lake City.

I went there for her 23rd birthday and will post pictures soon.

All the house rearrangement is because the brown carpet will be stripped off the floor as pictured above so that hardwood flooring will be installed in the front three rooms of our house: entry way, living and dining rooms.