Living Room Floor

The wood floor saga continues with the wood flooring now completed into the living room.  If you recall, our story left off with the dining room and how it is open to the living room.  There was wall to wall carpet throughout much of the condo {except for the bathrooms, kitchen and laundry/garage entrance/craft room}.

While I am fine with no area rug in the dining area, I told my hubby we will need one in the living room.  With the high ceilings you get an echo.  I put my foot down on that one {and it sounded much more forceful on a wood floor than the previous  carpeting}. 

I would tell you that this is the end of the flooring posts, but we are not sure if we are going to do wood or carpet in the sunroom.  My concern is it might be too cold in the Winter months in the sunroom, what with all those windows.  

So we are going to take an area rug I have rolled up at the moment as a “practice” rug, lay it down in the living room and see what that does to the acoustics.

If it works out to cut down on the echoing, we will do wood flooring in the sunroom, too.  If not, we will probably go with carpet.  I don’t care too much either way, I just want that room to be comfortable since we spend a lot of time in there. 

We are both really happy with the look of the wood flooring.  My husband said to me, “I would have been just as happy with carpeting”, which causes me to look at him with an I-can’t-believe-you-just-said-that look.  

He loves wood floors! When we went for a walk one night in our condo community he kept stopping to look in the windows of the new ones that were still for sale.  They all had wood floors.   His words, “that looks sharp” and “that looks really good”.   He must forget that I’ve known him for almost 30 years ~ “I would have been just as happy with carpeting”.  Who does he think he’s kidding?

He also “doesn’t want area rugs all over the place”; like I’ve got a stash in the hall closet waiting to come out!   Fingers crossed the area rug in the living room works out well.  I’m hitting Home Goods first, since I’ve had luck with them in the past for clients.

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