New Floors!! Yeah!!

Hello friends!!  How was your weekend?  I hope it was great!!  Ours was fun filled and quite busy....just the way we like it!!  :)

I really intended to post something yesterday.....but what do ya know....I couldn't find my computer power cord.....and the computer (of course) was DEAD!  Ugh!!  So.....fast forward to today.....and I still couldn't find the dumb cord!  I was seriously thinking I would have to just buy a new one, but decided to give in and admit to the hubs that I couldn't find it (double ugh!!).......AND luckily he was able to find it....BUT in my defense.....it had ended up in his "cord drawer"......which is essentially a black hole of sorts.....I NEVER go near it.....SO he had to be the one who put it in there......so Ha!  Maybe I'm not as scatterbrained as I was starting to think.....

So.....anyway......I've been meaning to post on this for a while......since you've already seen a little sneak peak it isn't really a surprise I guess....but good stuff none the less.....

We've got new floors in the entryway!!  You might remember seeing the new floor at the bottom of our "new" stairs.....

Ohhh....it makes us feel so FANCY!!  Ha, ha!!  Seriously it does!!

As usual we agonized over what to do in this space.....previously we had wood in the entryway and all through the front of the house on the first floor......and I LOVE wood floors, so it was a hard decision to replace it!  BUT....the wood in the entryway was in pretty bad shape.....it was really faded from all the light that comes through that big window over the door......and there was some water damage from all of us tracking in our wet feet......and my "little" bulldog had really done a number on it with his toenails (he loves to stand at those windows next to the door and bark at all the neighbors).....

BUT....come on....who couldn't forgive this precious little face.....

BUT.....the biggest reason for change.....we wanted to put a dark wood floor in the back of our house in the den.......so I don't know if this is a rule or not (and we don't necessarily follow decorating rules at our house anyway), but I have always heard that you shouldn't have different woods touch each other.......SO in order to break up the lighter wood in the front of the house from the (soon to be) dark wood in our den.....we needed something different in the entryway.....

So......what to get.....what to get......

We ultimately decided to go with a stone entryway with granite accents......so this would sort of mirror what we have in our backsplash in the kitchen....using a similar type of stone and the same granite.....

So.....here.....we.....go.......we decided that this was not a project we could do ourselves.....and oh my goodness....in hindsight what a good decision that was.....

That wood floor was SERIOUSLY stuck.....

At first the guy worked with a hammer and a chisel....YEAH.....that wasn't working!!  So next.....I kid you not.....they brought in a jackhammer type thing.....

And....finally.....after a LOT of work....those wood floors were gone! 

Next.....the guy got busy installing the stone & granite....



Wow!!  The guy did an AWESOME job!!  He is the same guy who installed our kitchen backsplash....so we knew that it was going to be GORGEOUS!!

Again....we used "our guy" from Reema Flooring in Pearland, TX who does all types of countertops and flooring....He is great to work with and we were really happy with everything! He does jobs all over Houston and the Houston suburbs....If you want to see the work they did in our kitchen, then check it out here.....

If any of you decide to use him.....just be sure to tell him that you heard about him from me :)  And.....no.....I'm not getting anything for this little endorsement!!

So....finally.....the floors were finished.....

Here you can see the lighter wood still in the front two rooms....the new entryway floor.....and the refinished staircase.....

And....how about just one more.....with the refinished stairs in the foreground....

Ahhh....LOVE.....IT!!  After all the agony over what to do in this space.....we were SO HAPPY with how it all turned out!!  You just never know....ya know......until you see it....in your house......

Anyone else put down stone in their house or made over an entryway?  Did you do the work yourself or hire it out?  I would love to hear about it!!

Until next time.....

XOXO,

Kristal