Same Flooring, Different Day(s)

Happy post-4th of July weekend!  We forgot to post last weekend so this is a bit of a catch-up post as well as a report on the long weekend.  Fortunately, for the sake of brevity, we've been doing the same thing day after day after day - flooring.  So. Much. Flooring.  We started last weekend in the kitchen, worked our way through the half bath and into the living room, completed the living room and the mudroom, and now have the den well under way.  We've probably prepped and installed somewhere around nine hundred square feet of hardwood over the past eight days, not to mention that we've taken a fair amount of time off for various and sundry social events.  We are a bit exhausted!  But I continue to love the material we're using - a stranded 4" bamboo in natural - and it's been a surprisingly smooth installation process so far.  It's a good deal more work to install the hardwood over the old subfloor instead of new plywood subfloor, though, and since we're in the "old" part of the house, we've had to take our time.  In order to make sure the floor is level and squeak-free, we've been screwing in each board, knocking in the old nails, and then scraping and, in some cases, planing the boards down to level.  As a result, it takes roughly the same amount of time to prep the floor as it does to install the new hardwood.  The actual install has also required some attention to detail, with the long runs to keep straight and quite a few cuts around the doorways and in the closets.  Still, we're much farther along than I thought we'd be in just a week.  A couple more evenings this week and I think we'll have this job done.  Since we didn't even have walls just a few weeks ago, it's very nice to now have rooms with flooring!

Day 1 - starting in the kitchen

Kitchen and half-bath progress

Past the basement doorway and onto the long run through the living room and into the den

More flooring....

Yes, still more flooring...

Finally!  Living room finished....

Mudroom also complete (with trim staged for installation)....

Den, in prep phase

Den, so very nearly complete...