Home Improvement Project

Some of you may not know it by looking at him - but Tom is extremely handy! We've been talking about getting new floors in our family room for a few months now. The fact that we have 2 dogs (who think it's cool to shake off on the carpet when they come in) and the family room is the room we congregate in 95% of the time helped us reach the decision that a light beige (?) carpet isn't going to cut it.

So last week, Tom and I started searching for floors that would meet our 2 requirements - 1) reasonable priced and 2) looked great with all our furniture. We ended up finding some on the 2nd day of our search.

I thought the floors would be enough of a project for Tom - but apparently he had other ideas. He decided that since he was ripping the carpet up that now would be the great time to build a hearth for the fireplace and give it a new look with slate.

So starting on Wednesday night of last week Tom has been a busy bee - working from the time he gets home until bedtime. And other than a slight problem we had with the original floors we bought everything went smoothly for him. He grouted (is that a word?) the fireplace tonight and only has one thing left to do on the floors before he is finished.

I forgot to take a picture of the before - so I'm having to use a picture we took when we were house hunting.

Tom did an amazing job with the floors and the fireplace as you can see from the pictures below. He's such a handy guy!!!

Oh, and did I mention he had a helper..