Tonights progress brought to you live by Alaskan Amber :)

So the southern munchkins of Michigan have tore into it once more.  Last major update we left off with the new wood floor ending at the door to the kitchen, and that was just after we had company here months ago... Probably 2010.  So now that the kitchen agreement has taken place we can move forward and continue the flooring.  YEA!!!  (the sunshine outside doesn't hurt either)

Flooring skills have improved. We have gotten a little quicker and installing these.  The blank space is well underneath where the new cabinets are going to go. So to save the expense of wasting flooring nobody will ever see we made the decision to nail plywood down the same thickness as the floor. I may end up staining the plywood so if the stove is pulled out it won't look terrible. But this will allow appliances to sit correctly and save a  couple hundred bucks in the process.

Oh, P.S. we painted the wall!!  it looks a little more lime greenish than it is in person.  The color brightens up the room , makes it a little fun and funky, and still keeps in the character of the historic house. Just what we were after. The stove and island keep floating around the room as flooring progresses.  It would probably move even faster if stuff wasn't in the way.

And of course if there is paint involved Amanda's creativity is not far behind.  She has attacked the  now guest bedroom full force. Note the lack of oak flooring.  That was a weeks worth of work carefully pulling that out.

Amanda applying the metallic paint. 

She paints and the floor starts creeping in.... spooky.

 I did learn one neat trick to laying wood floors, while pulling out the oak floor, I found the flooring changed direction at the door to the downstairs bath.  You can buy splines for the 3/4" flooring so you can flip the boards around and run the opposite direction. An answer to a mental delima for a week or so. Certainly the solution I needed to traverse the doorway and move back toward the back wall of the bedroom.  (the skinny paint stick on the floor is one of the splines I cut from a paint stick to fit our floor.

Well we hope this finds all of the friends and family safe in the windy south.