Monday, March 19, 2007

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Start of Spring?

Well, Yesterday I was very happy to see the last of February's snow disappear. We had a lot of snow in February and it took a lot of warm days but it was all gone. So we felt like spring was here.
NOT!!! See what happened last night.
Those who are in Alberta will realize that this is quite normal really and that it will probably happen a few more times before we hit a couple weeks of real summer before this weather pattern starts again in the fall.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Start of our Home Renovation/Addition

So Yesterday we officially started our home reno. We ripped out the living room carpet. Picture with carpet(taken in Summer) and without carpet
And then Ryan started putting in our laminate flooring. He was having a rough time with it as it did not want to stay together. But he got a bit done in the hall way.

His hands were pretty cut up from ripping out the smooth edge, something that is not at all smooth but full of small nails sticking up to hold the carpet in place. He also had a piece of smooth edge stuck in his hind end. Too bad it was out of there too fast to get the picture.
We discovered some interesting lino underneath the carpet at the front entrance.

Katie thinks we should keep it.
So tonight Ryan plans to get the hallway finished and hopes to have more luck since he talked to the "experts" while at work today. So here he is hard at work.
Here are the colours we have chosen so far for our house on top of the laminate.






Main colour- Feature

Kitchen- Dining room

Here is Ryan's progress tonight