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more home renos...flooring questions (PIP) :)
Okay. The other big update I want to do is our living room floor. The previous owners pulled up the carpet and stained the underlying concrete. They did a crappy job, and the stain/paint is flaking up and it looks really cheap. Plus, I'm not a fan of how hard or cold concrete is with little ones running around.
When you walk in our house, the entry hall and formal dining are original hardwood. They're pretty worn, but we won't be working on that for a long time. They stay. From that entry hall, you look into the sunken living room with the concrete.
The kitchen, 3 bathrooms, and breakfast room have newish tile. The bedroom hallway and 3 bedrooms have an espresso colored engineered hardwood.
I was thinking about putting cork flooring in the living room. Thoughts? I like the warmth and sound absorbent properties. I feel like since we can't match the original hardwoods, and true hardwood is cost prohibitive, it's a better option to install something that obviously looks like different flooring, and not like we did a poor matching job.
Pics of living (not our stuff):
pic of floor in dining and entry:
pic of floors in master and other bedrooms:
Re: more home renos...flooring questions (PIP) :)
You have that huge rug in the living room, it is covering up the living room flooring issues. I would wait until you can install wood flooring in the entry way, dining room and living room. I would attempt to match what is already in the bedrooms.
Not our stuff or rug
So you would tear up the original hardwoods for the sake of matching?
I also worry that if you have stained concrete, you're going to have to take the finish off before putting down certain kinds of flooring. Anything that requires an adhesive will need that floor sanded down, and that's going to create a lot of dust.
Anything that floats, and tile and carpet, can be laid over. A vapor barrier would be put down under the floating-type floors.
Your house is just full of fun stuff to do
Yeah. The two big items are definitely kitchen and living floors. Woohoo! But the landscaping rocks, it has a beautiful backyard, and great bones
I don't think we'd be going with anything that requires an adhesive.
I would tear out the original flooring yes, because you will never be able to match them.
As far as the concrete floors, you should be able to easily lay carpet or wood flooring over the painted concrete without any issues. This is why we chose to stain the concrete in our bedrooms because the transition to carpet would be minimal if and when we decide to sell. Now, if you add cork flooring or other tile, transitioning to wood will be a nightmare.