Well to make a short story long...

March 2008; at the end of April we plan to install oak flooring in the house. We also plan to paint the extra room. Well it makes sense to paint the room before the new floor goes down, who cares of we spill some paint on the old carpet. Well if we are going to move the furniture to paint, should we install the new floor before we put the furniture back? We want the wood to flow from the front room, down the hall and into the bedrooms. So to install the floor in the extra room, before we put the furniture back, means we need to start the flooring in the front room and flow down the hall and into the bedroom. We we also want to make a fancy 90 degree turn with the wood in the hall as the hall turn to the master bedroom. So we have to run the wood flow from the front room down the hall, turn the corner into the master bedroom, so the we can make the floor flow into the spare bedroom.

I will keep posting new pictures as we move along, check back to see the progress.

Day 21, we did the hard part, we continued the flooring around the fire place. We are now ready for the push through the front room. Two weeks off until we do the front room.

Day 35, The front room. A good friend, Andy, came up from Simi Valley for a week to help with the floor. Troy, a good friend from work, also came over to help with the front room push. We put in about 325 square feet of flooring in one day. We then took a day off for rest, then Andy and I did the master bedroom, and started the base boards and trim. Another day of rest, finish the base boards and trim.

Day 42, We still have to do some minor detail work, but it is “done”. Mostly we have to sand, file, fit and paint the base board corners.

A chant we heard over and over was "next time, wider longer boards, wider longer"