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