Beautiful, Beautiful Floor

After almost two months of on-and-off work, our laminate floor project is finally done! This was a very big project for two people who didn't even own a screwdriver not too long ago. It took much longer than we thought, and for the first two weeks we had to live entirely in the living room because the bedroom had no proper flooring.

And that was why our living room looked like this...

Frat house? No. Try again.

Yep. That's where we slept. On the mattress on the floor. And right next to the "bed" was the sofa, which became our "wardrobe" since we didn't have anywhere to store our clothes yet.

We're really glad it's done, although it took much longer than we thought it would. We're really proud of ourselves, too. It's not a bad job, if I may say so myself.

Em checking to see whether our work was acceptable.

Some parts are kinda wonky...

Incredibly uneven lines!

But nobody will see these parts because they'll be out of sight once we install new baseboards.

Some parts we can't take credit for because a friend happens to have an uncle who works in construction and is willing to work in exchange for some shoes. Yes. Shoes. Vee gets many free shoes from his workplace and our friend's uncle happens to have the same shoe size. How great is that?

Somewhere along the way, Vee and I automatically divided tasks. I did the measuring and he did the cutting, then we did the installing together. It worked out faster that way. Also, Vee likes them boys' toys and I'm pretty good with numbers. The factory line model is not used worldwide for no reason, people.

By the way, Jay remarked that I was "very cool" for getting down and dirty with the flooring installation because he says girls don't usually do stuff like that. Few things please me more than being the anti-stereotype, laminate flooring finally installed being one of these few things.