We’re trying to soak up all the things that we love about this house before we move on to our next big project, and we realized that our floors make us inordinately happy. And it’s not just the fact that they’re mostly hardwood in a nice mocha color, it’s the whole cohesive flooring thing in general. Seriously, I never thought these words would come out of my mouth (because it honestly sounds like I’m a motivational speaker or someone who takes design way too seriously) but… cohesive flooring is a game changer. Really. It is.
Our house used to have eight different flooring materials and seams. Think about that for a second. Eight! All on one modestly sized level. Talk about chopping things up and making them feel even smaller. There was faux stone linoleum in the laundry nook, yellowed vinyl tile in the half bath, a sheet of dated blue linoleum in the kitchen, thin ratty carpet in the full bathroom, faux parquet linoleum flooring in the den, another thin ratty carpet in the sunroom, and hardwoods in about the other half of the house (thank goodness).
You can see a few more floor before & after pics here (although admittedly we weren’t the best at taking photos back in the early days). But the point is that now our entire house is all dark solid hardwood (some that we installed during our kitchen reno, and some that we got refinished to match those new hardwoods) along with a similarly toned mocha marble floor in the full bath (there’s the same mocha hardwood in the half-bath to keep everything cohesive).
It’s amazing how much more of an open feeling it lends to the whole house. Of course it’s totally a subjective thing (and we can see how it’s fun to play around with different flooring colors and materials if that’s you thing), but as far as this small home full of small rooms is concerned, similarly toned seamless flooring was one of the best decisions we could have made. So we thought we’d pass that tip along to anyone else who’s slowly but surely working with a small space full of an inordinate amount of linoleum, nappy carpet, or faux parquet. It might not be the cheapest home improvement undertaking, but you can find some pretty great deals. We got our new hardwoods cheaper than most laminate flooring that big box stores sell thanks to Lumber Liquidators, and we only paid $1.50 a square foot to get our existing stuff refinished. The point of this diatribe? Life’s too short to live with crazy mismatched floors.
And so ends a weird little Friday morning brain dump of sorts. What’s up with the floors in your house? Do they all match or have some sort of relationship with each other? Does every room in your house have a different floor personality? Come on, the least we can do is see this weird floor tangent through…
stephae says
You two are the cutest. I have been an interior designer for almost 7 years and I just found your blog. I must be living under a rock. I think it’s adorable that you guys do everything together!
Laura says
THANK you.
I have been wondering what to do with our kitchen linoleum.
We have hard wood throughout, except for the kitchen, so its rather abruptly stopping in the kitchen, whereas the rest of the house just *flows*.
You’ve given me just the inspiration I need to install new hardwood and refinish the rest.
Yuppie Lady says
I believe we have 3 different types of flooring in our home. I’m more in love with our Dark Walmut stained floors. We purchased our home July of this year and the wood floors under the dirty nasty carpet was a GREAT find. It saved us tons of $$$! Check out my blog for pics.
Next year we’ll probably add our 4th type of flooring in the basement. Right now it’s a blank concrete canvas.
amy good house says
I couldn’t agree with you more! I think especially in regular-folks sized houses, it looks very elegant to have one continuous surface extend room to room. It makes the space feel so much more cohesive. We had both our 1st and 2nd floors refinished to match each other. We also removed rugs to make one type of flooring. The bathroom and kitchen floors are the only surfaces that are (understandably)varied.
I think this rule also extends to wood-work/trim – when all the wood-work in the house is white your eye travels through the space. I think it is best to decorate a house as a whole, not chopped-up “themes” room-to-room.
Can’t wait to see what you have in store for the new house!
Rebecca says
I’m so glad to see this. We built a new house and were very adamant that all the flooring on the first floor was hardwood. The builder looked at us like we had 4 heads. I hate hate hate new houses with open floor plans and then a weird square of carpet to mark the family room, another weird square of hardwood or tile to mark the foyer, and then usually vinyl or tile in the bathroom or kitchen. It makes no sense to me. A lot of people have a weird notion that it is difficult to maintain hardwood in the kitchen, but we have no problem. Our dream house would have all one flooring, either reclaimed hardwood or concrete. I hope to never have wall to wall carpet again.
Anna says
You’re so right about the benefits of cohesive flooring! We ripped up the grodiest blue carpet and disinegrating pad, kitchen linoleum that was like a big plastic sticker, and some remnant of berber in funfetti colors on our main level (living room, kitchen, hallway, and den) and installed wood flooring. It is divine. The next step is the carpeted stairs and upstairs – you can see all four types of carpet when you stand at the top of the stairs. Ugh!
Nichole@40daysof says
Okay, you asked for it!
The foyer and the powder room have Cream marble tile inlaid with black marble diamonds, the two rooms on either side have beige carpet that isn’t very old, but I didn’t pick it and I’m not a fan. The front stairs have hardwood with white spindles. The walkway around the family room has hardwood, the actual room has the beige carpet. Wish it was hardwood. The kitchen, breakfast room, formal dining room and garage hallway all have the same hardwoods that go around the fm. The back stairway and all of the bedrooms and the game room have the beige carpet. The laundry room and all of the bathrooms have white ceramic tile (boring). So, I guess that’s just 4 different types of flooring. Not bad for what is admittedly a big house. No idea what to do about the miles of beige carpet.
http://40daysof.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/raindrops-on-roses-and-whiskers-on-kittens/
Krys72599 says
We’re lucky (?) enough to live in an 80 or 90-year old home. All the floors in the living spaces (except for the kitchen and baths) are hardwood, thin oak with inlaid trim around the outside of each room. We put white ceramic tile in the kitchen during our 5-month kitchen reno of 1996 (never again!) and large 16″ tiles in our bathroom, but other than that, we’re a wood sort of family! You’re right, it is nice to see that flow from our living room to our library and into our dining room… And it looks beautiful with our unpainted wide chestnut window trim…
GreenInOC says
I have 3 different flooring materials in my house.
Throughout most of the house I have cork planks with extra cork subfloor. No seams, no transitions, no regrets. They are amazing.
In my bathroom I have cork mosaic. It is beautiful.
In my laundry room I have awful yellow linoleum. I have Marmoleum waiting to be installed there. Unfortunately, I cannot find anyone to install it!!
Ali says
We have lots of different flooring in our house! But, I prefer one type flooring for that seamless look. We live in a large one story rancher. I wish and wish it was in our budget to replace all of it with hardwood floors (except bathrooms and laundry room = fear of water leaks and damage). One day it may be in our budget and hopefully, then we’ll find an incredible deal like you all did! Did any of your furniture moving around and decorating ever damage your hardwoods? Just curious!
Can’t wait to hear about the flooring in your new house!
~ Ali
YoungHouseLove says
Hey Ali,
You probably won’t believe me when I say this but no. Not once! We did have some minor scrapes, but once I cleaned the floors with moisturizing Oil Soap they were gone! We’re generally pretty careful about the floors when it comes to moving heavy stuff so our tip would be “lift! don’t slide!”
xo,
s
Roberta says
I’m curious about your (and other reader’s)opinions on the faux stone linoleum. I recently replaced the floors in our upstairs bathrooms with this stuff b/c 1)the floor was sheet linoleum that was heinous and original to the house (1989) 2)I couldn’t afford to do tile b/c I would have had to hire someone to install it. The rest of the floor upstairs is Berber carpet. I actually like the way it turned out as it’s a huge improvement over the original sheet linoleum. I guess I’m wondering if others feel it’s an acceptable improvement over sheet linoleum if you’re on a tight budget, or would you turn your nose up at it if you were looking to buy a house that had this flooring in a bathroom.
YoungHouseLove says
Any responses for Roberta? We think it all comes down to how it looks. Ours was big black faux stones with dark gray fake grout – you can kind of see it in the pic with our realtor standing in the doorway. For such a small hallway those big fake boulders were kind of an odd choice. But it definitely didn’t keep us from buying the house!
xo,
s
Elyse says
We currently have…. 8 different flooring types/colors in our 1 level ranch house. we have some really gross linoleum and red/orange carpet in a lot of the rooms (i think it’s the original 1967 stuff) and is not a priority for my husband to change, because while it’s ugly it’s in surprisingly good shape, so we haven’t done much yet :(
I would really love to have matching flooring throughout most of the house, but my husband is worried about wood laminate in wet areas, so we’ve done a wood laminate in our back living room, will eventually extend it to half of the front entry and the front living room. We’ll do tile (still looking for a color that will blend with our wood laminate, making it cohesive) in the entryway, kitchen and laundry room. The other half of the house (hallway, bedrooms, and bathrooms) will have beige carpet and the two bathrooms will probably have beige tile to blend with the carpet. so that’s the plan now, but we’ll see. I like carpet in bedrooms, but it might be nice to have the wood laminate extend into those areas too.
Carrie says
We bought our 1950s, 810 sq ft home 4 years ago – and all of the floors were covered in carpet. Yes, even the kitchen!! The 1 bathroom had vinyl tile. Before we moved in, we ripped out all of the carpet and found beautiful terrazzo floors. When we pulled up the tile in the bathroom, we found ugly “patches” of concrete from a plumbing mishap. We called in a terrazzo restoration company for advice. They were able to cover up the patches with care, blending the concrete to match and adding similar colored chips. We then had them buff up the whole house. When they were done, it looked AMAZING! It was like glass! And you’re right, having the same flooring throughout really helps in a small (cozy) home :)
Rebecca @ the lil house that could says
Do you guys use a dehumidifier? We have hardwood floors throughout our new house (kitchen and powder room included) and our floors recently started doing this strange popping noise thing. A flooring inspector came in (from the builder) and said that with as much hardwood as we have without seams, we should have been running a dehumidifier and the builder should have warned us. Humpf, I have a feeling this isn’t going to end pretty, but I was wondering if you ever had such problems with large amounts of hardwood?
YoungHouseLove says
We don’t use a dehumidiier, but we’ve heard that before installing wood flooring you should let it acclimate for a few days (get used to the humidity or non-humidity in your house). Our wooden boxes sat around for a few day before the install, which might be why our floors haven’t really reacted based on the heat/humidity or other seasonal factors.
xo,
s
Sara @ House Bella says
We have uniform floors, if you consider old beige carpet and matched old linoleum “uniform.” Bleck.
We have picked out new engineered hardwood to lay throughout the whole house (I’m with you on the uniform thing) but one of the absolute stinkers of living in a stunningly beautiful middle-of-nowhere place is that deals on hardwood floors is not in the realm of possibility. No Lumber Liquidators, only high end custom floor shops. We haven’t had it put in yet because the expense is going to be HUGE. Big, fat, alligator tear.
Amanda says
Our home was a rental before we got it, and we were super fortunate that underneath all the cheapo beige carpet (ick), that there were hardwood floors throughout! *double fist pump*
Now if we can only get done refinishing them… :D
Irene says
We have 70 year old hardwoods except the kitchen (we wanted to rip out the 3 layers of linoleum but the bottom layer was asbestos glued so that would have been a nearly impossible task) so we got some checkerboard Marmoleum. It’s so soft underfoot and looks great. Our bathroom tile is a little tragic but we’ll be redoing that
Katie says
Thankfully in my first home the previous owner had just ripped up the carpet to reveal the original hardwood floors throughout the home (minus the kitchen and bathrooms). UNFORTUNATELY that previous owner left the carpet in the kitchen! WHY IN THE KITCHEN?!? But I soon realized why. I (with the help of my mom) had to peel up the carpet that was glued to the linoleum, that was glued to paneling (yes, the stuff you put on walls), and that was STAPLED to the original floors. Once we got that all up, the 7′ x 4′ section of dry-rot was revealed! Oh the joys of floor in a older ranch-style house. But it all worked out and the original hardwood floors everywhere else made up for the kitchen disaster (at least that is what I am telling myself).
GreenInOC says
@Roberta my answer is wait for what you want!
I spend 10 years with my gray (it was originally black & white but by the time I got it, it was gray), ugly, ground in dirt, Berber.
I wanted cork but I couldn’t afford it. It took me 10 years to get what I wanted but oh, it was so worth the wait.
Make SURE to check frequently with your Habitat for Humanity ReStore. They often have flooring from Home Depot, Lowes and Lumber Liquidators for super cheap! Not too long ago, I saw REAL wood, hardwood planks for 80 cent/psf!!
http://www.habitat.org/cd/env/restore.aspx
Also, join your local Freecycle and Sharing is Giving groups for leftovers, garage clean-ups, etc.. and don’t forget to scour Craigslist!!
Laura V. says
I had to laugh a little at this because we are doing the opposite in our new house! We moved in to a sea of nothing but mauve 80s carpet everywhere… Yeah, everywhere, including the bathrooms… Yuck.
We’ve managed to break it up with new carpeting upstairs, tiles in the bathrooms and bamboo floors throughout the first floor (except kitchen). We’re planning on doing a kitchen remodel soon, and maybe looking at cork! Yay for floors! :)
Beeya says
I love the dark color of your hardwood flooring. Its my absolute fav. Were they originally came with this rich colour or did you stain them to be darker?
My husband and the contractor seems to think that hardwood floors are not good in the kitchen in case of any water accidents. But I love cohesive flooring throughout the house except of course bathrooms.
YoungHouseLove says
Hey Beeya,
We stained them to be darker (check out the link in the post for more info on the refinishing process). Hope it helps!
xo,
s
Amy says
We’ve got hardwood floors through most of the house- abutting a terrible faux-brick linoleum in the kitchen and next to that, 80’s pink carpet. We took down walls between all of these rooms (so you can see from the pink carpet, to the faux-brick, to the hardwood), and now we have no idea what to do. It is 600 sq. feet of space in just the kitchen and the carpeted room, so I don’t think I can afford hardwood right now. Any suggestions?
I’m thinking I should tile the kitchen, and do a pergo wood laminate in the other room, so it at least looks similar to the existing floors. So far, I have just stared at them for 4 months thinking “what in god’s name do I do?” With these floors, I can’t get the 80’s out of my house!
(I should mention that the walls in the kitchen are z-brick. I am still desperate to make over this room. I painted the brick white and will likely paint the cabinets a light grey. Why did they use so much brown??)
YoungHouseLove says
Hey Amy,
A few comments up GreenInOC said something to the effect of “wait for what you really want.” We couldn’t agree more! Try holding out and saving your pennies for hardwood in both spaces if that’s what you truly want! But of course tile and pergo could be really nice too. It’s really all about what you like and what you want for the long haul!
xo,
s
Lauren C says
The floors in my house are cheapo tiles and come up with each step when I’m not wearing socks. Sadly, I’m a renter and can’t change this… Fingers crossed for DIY freedom in the future!
Allie says
Oh the floors in my house…
This was a big compromise for me because I swore up and down that I wouldn’t buy a house without hardwood floors. The downstairs of our 1900 sq. ft. two-story colonial has four different floors…none of which are hardwood. I guess it could be worse but our floor plan is definitely not modern, open-concept, so I feel like all the different floors make the house feel more chopped up. The previous homeowner had new carpet installed in the living room which then has a doorway to the hallway (a cheap light pine-look laminate that is chipping and separating in many places) and a door to the kitchen. The kitchen floor makes me want to cry every day. It’s a white sheet vinyl with a square pattern that no matter what I do never ever looks clean.
I dream of darker hardwood floors throughout the whole downstairs, but fear the cost. Of course my husband thinks it’s not smart to put hardwood in the kitchen but I do a LOT of baking and have bad feet and think I would hate cold hard tile. So we dream on…
However, one question for you. What is your opinion of the direction of hardwood flooring? Should it all go in one direction throughout the bottom floor, or is it best to take it on a room-by-room basis for what would make the room look biggest? Jury’s out on this one for us.
Thanks and best of luck with the move!
YoungHouseLove says
We like it all going the same direction throughout the whole floor (that’s what ours does and we love it). Just less interruption that way (which generally makes things look bigger and improves flow). Hope it helps!
xo,
s
Lisa in Seattle says
I liked the honey-oak hardwood floors in our upstairs living room/dining room/hall *until* I saw your mocha floors, and then all I could think about was how much I don’t like them anymore. We also have 9 rooms with 9 different floors: the honey oak, different crappy old linoleum patterns in the three baths, new but crappy linoleum in the kitchen, silvery-mauve carpet downstairs, grey carpet in the office, and two different greens in the bedroom and the library. The last two are deliberate and I love them, so haters don’t be telling me all rooms need to match. ;P
What I *don’t* like about hardwood floors is that we have pine needles everywhere all the time. They manifest out of thin air. I can Swiffer and look behind me and there are pine needles. I took a yogurt container to work and when I went to open it, there was a pine needle stuck to the lid. I ASK YOU. Apparently pine needles are beaming themselves into our house from all over the country.
Kari says
When we remodeled our house, we battled forever over carpet or hardwoods for the house. It was never a question that ALL floors would be done. We landed some hickory flooring on the cheap, so all the bedrooms, hallway, and living room have the hickory. We do have tile in the bathroom, entry way, and kitchen–3 different kinds–but I like the differences with the rooms.
Here’s a look at befores and afters in our “ugly” house!!
http://www.souptowindows.com/the-ugly-house/
P.S. I TOTALLY recommend hickory hardwoods if you like the look. We get complimented most on the flooring in our home. If I could rip it all out and take it with me when we go someday, I totally would.
Kelly says
I absolutely love your blog. It’s fun to read and so inspiring! My husband and I are very into the DIYing of our house and other things, and only slightly into blogging about them. You guys have fantastic ideas.
This post about floors has gotten me thinking about ours. Great idea to keep the colors similar to create a more seamless feeling. We’ll be tiling our kitchen at some point (we’re planning to always have big dogs and think tile will stand up better to all our abuse), and I hadn’t thought of choosing a similar color to the beautiful deep honey (fir) hardwood throughout most of the house, but it makes so much sense to do that – maybe California gold slate or similar look.
I have a related question. Our living room has a fireplace with the kind of hearth that is level with the floor. I’m planning to tile the hearth with slate tile to replace those ugly brick-colored tiles that seemed to be all the rage in the 50’s. Do you think the hearth should use a somewhat matched color as the floor, or a contrasting color to draw attention? I’d love to get your input on this since you guys have such great taste. And what do you think about using the same flooring for all the non-wood areas (kitchen, bathroom, small area at the front door) – would that be good, or boring? Thanks!
YoungHouseLove says
If you love the slate stone, why not allow it to be the star? It definitely doesn’t have to blend in, but that would work too. It’s really all about what you find and the cost and what ends up making the most sense and looking the best! As for using the same flooring in all of the non-wood areas, we definitely think that will add cohesion and won’t be boring at all!
xo,
s
Kiran says
I wish I had some hardwood floors. Well, I just wished you guys were here to help redecorate :)
Erica says
When I bought my house, it had 3 different flooring types. Not terrible, except that the floors themselves were in absolutely awful shape. 4 rooms had awful dark brown, dirty carpet (the living room, 2 bedrooms, and what I use as a dining room). The kitchen and laundry room (which are attached) had this awful brown linoleum that had holes and burn marks in it. Gross. The bathroom still has this beige octagonal tile that would be kind of neat except I hate beige, the grout is super dirty (even after scrubbing), and it’s cracked. The tile on the wall is the same shade of beige too, which is a tad much on the beige side for me. I still have 3 flooring types in my house, but the rooms that were formerly carpeted are now restored 110 year old heart pine hardwood (I did them myself with help from my father so that makes me love them even more!), and the kitchen and laundry room are a new grey 18×18 inch tile that my dad and I also laid. The hardwoods that run under the kitchen weren’t salvageable in some places and I didn’t really want hardwood in the kitchen anyway. The bathroom still has the awful beige tile, but I’m hoping someday to possibly extend the grey tile into the bathroom. Someday…
Ange says
I discovered your blog a few weeks ago whilst doing google searches for diy and decorating tips and I’m hooked! We bought our 1980 house five years ago and the first thing we did was rip up the putrid carpet to reveal beautiful hardwood floors but mistakenly got the floor man to use a high gloss finish which looked great at first but I found it so hard to keep it looking clean all the time. Also having three indoor cats and a clumsy hubby didn’t help so the floors were getting scratchy and we just got them buffed and got the satin finish this time, much better! They look beautiful. I was wondering do you guys use felt floor protectors on all your furniture? I have become obsessed using them on every single piece of furniture in the house to protect the floors from damage and I find them to be great!
YoungHouseLove says
Hey Ange,
We add them to chairs that slide in and out (like the one’s in our dining room) but for big objects like sofas we’ve found that they usually come with rubber feet or pads that don’t hurt the floor and help keep them from moving around.
xo,
s
Ty Lee says
My floors are cohesive alright… by which I mean I’m drowning in a sea of beige carpeting. The bathrooms and kitchen are tiled, but those tiles are ALSO beige. Infuriatingly beige. I just moved into an apartment (my husband’s job requires relocation right now, so no house just yet), and I have been going a little bit rug-crazy, because I need SOMETHING to cover up all the supposedly universally inoffensive beige (I think I may just be a little bit off my rocker with my distaste for all things beige). I suppose it helps my small place feel larger, but I’m breaking a few design “rules” to break up all that beigeness, including laying a rug over carpeting, which apparently is an interior designing sin (though if any interior designer saw how beige my place is, I’m sure I’d be forgiven).
YoungHouseLove says
It’s so not a sin! We’ve seen it done really well and it can look amazing. We say go for it!
xo,
s
Mary Sterck says
When I married my husband, I inherited the house that he had built with his first wife 30 years ago. Every room except the dining area and living area was a different type of flooring. The house too is 1500 sq ft. approx. So chopped up, I have gotten the 2 baths remodeled and the front entry which is huge with beautiful italian tile that I got for 70% off since it was the last of a huge lot. Can’t beat a deal like that. The next is tackling the kitchen which will be easy since it is galley style and all the bedrooms with a similar color hardwood. I had chestnut hardwood in my florida house and it looked amazing.
I think that it is so important to have a cohesive look to the flooring, you are so right that living in this size house the floors must visually connect.
cristina says
I loved “we plan to stay in our house a long, long time” from the woodfloor post link :) You guys will def love your new home too
YoungHouseLove says
I’m telling you, I wanted to stay here forever! Haha, how things change! We had no earthly idea that two people working from home plus a baby would ever make this house feel so full! Back in the days of that floor post we were two people who used only one of the three bedrooms and had no idea what to do with the other two (we rarely hosted people so the need for a guest room was pretty low back then, as opposed to these days when friends and family stop in more often). Now one of those “surplus bedrooms” is an office/guest bedroom/playroom and the other’s a nursery full of baby stuff! My how a few years can change everything…
xo,
s
Hayley says
We live in a rented house and our semi external bathroom and hall to the back yard is extremely ugly green tiles covered in adhesive floor tiles! Thus I vacuum my bathroom. Gotta love the dodgy patch up jobs landlords do *rolls eyes*.
Hayley says
Sorry! I meant adhesive CARPET tiles lol
Taylor @ thehouseonpennylane says
We were lucky enough to find a house with dark trim. Unfortunately, it also came with cream tile and carpet.. and not the good kind. I knew instantly that the house was begging for crisp white walls and dark brown flooring. I was lucky to find a dark wood that matched our trim and a beautiful brown tile that matched the wood. We have 600 square feet of tile and 900 square feet of wood, so I knew I wanted flooring that would blend into each other, especially considering one transition between the two floor is 23 feet wide!
So yes, I’m a huge fan of seamless (appearing, anyway) flooring and agree that yours look fantastic!
Sandra says
I know your pain! We have a bungalow of the same vintage as yours and when we moved in, we had FIVE different shades of 1970’s brown shag rug all on the main floor!!! Plus two linoleums that were VERY ugly. A friend of ours is an interior decorator and she has taught me the need for a cohesive flooring look throughout the house. Makes a HUGE difference!
Cecily T says
First @ Ty Lee – I’m pretty sure that rug over carpet is allowed in interior design. And if not? Meh, do it if it suits you.
We have a lot of the same-ness beige thing going on here that other people have complained of..it’s the layout that worries me. We have beige builder-grade carpets in most of the house (upstairs, downstairs office, living room, family room) and beige “IMPORTED FROM ITALY” (meaning…the cheapest tile from home depot) strewn through the foyer, across the back of the family room, the kitchen, and the laundry/mud room. Tile that I HATE. It shows dirt like crazy; the people who lived here before us NEVER cleaned it, so even through we cleaned and sealed it, it still doesn’t look quite right.
Functionally, the tile makes sense, but I hate walking on it. I’m leary of hardwood in the kitchen getting warped by too much water and grease spattering in front of the stove.
I don’t really know what to do. I like carpet, but the ‘zones’ even in my biggish house, feel weird to me. OTOH, tile everywhere feels weird and rental-beach-house to me. Like, we need something that washes off b/c we don’t know what might go on here. I think that hardwood is probably the way to go, b/c it’s the only thing that would work everywhere.
YoungHouseLove says
Well you know we love lots of hardwood…
xo,
s
Autumn says
Love your Blog, I’ve been reading it daily for a while now!
The floors look fantastic and I hope to do the same to unify my main floor someday.
Question for you about the gorgeous green bathroom, where did you get the fantastic sink and faucet? We are planning some renos and I’d love to use those.
Thanks!
Autumn
YoungHouseLove says
Hey Autumn,
We got both the sink and faucet on overstock. Hopefully if you search “sink bathroom overstock” on our site you’ll find the post about it!
xo,
s
Megan says
When we bought our house we were in a rush to get in, BUT I wish we had refinished all the wood floors in the house. The previous homeowner did a finish to them that made them look pretty but is definitely not standing up to time, dogs, people, cats, etc. Some day however, when we redo our kitchen and bath (both currently a NASTY tile job), we will also rip out the one room that’s left with carpet (glued down! wtf!) and have matching, deep colored hardwood floors. Our upstairs master suite is a mix of wood (in the office) and carpet everywhere else. It’s a nice carpet though and I’m not in the mood to replace it yet. Some day maybe. I enjoy the cohesive look… my parents have it with solid oak floors throughout their house, except in their bathrooms.
Amanda says
Love seeing the progression over the years! And what an adventure you have ahead of you! So exciting! I’m wondering your thoughts on hardwood in the kitchen. Right now, we have hardwoods everywhere downstairs except the kitchen (it’s tile). It’s an open layout so there’s an obvious divide. I’d like to replace the tile with hardwoods (a la your first house) but my husband is worried about water and kitchen mess, thinking that wood would be harder to keep clean and dry. I’d love any tips! Happy Holidays : D
YoungHouseLove says
We haven’t had any issue with keeping the kitchen floor clean or dry. We just wipe up any spills if they occur. It’s as easy to care for as a wood floor in any other area of the house! Hope it helps.
xo,
s
Nicole says
Hi,
My husband and I just bought a new (to us) house. The hardwood floors are bamboo. They aren’t my favorite, but they will do for now. I’m having the hardest time picking a paint color for my dining room that will flow with the floor color. I like the color bungalow gold by Eddie Bauer, but I’m afaid it’s too close to the floor color. Any suggestions??
YoungHouseLove says
We say go for Bungalow Gold and use curtains, rugs, furniture, art and accessories to add dimension and interest so it doesn’t look too flat! Good luck!
xo,
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Brooke says
We too purchased a home with a lot of different flooring on the main level. We would love to put down darker hardwoods throughout the first floor but our kitchen cabinets are a cherry color. Not dark-dark but not light either. Will dark wood floors look okay with the darker cabinets? If so, do you think going with a brown shade versus one that has cherry in it would be better? Thank you!!
YoungHouseLove says
Hmm, we definitely believe in looking at a few flooring samples in your space right next to the cabinets to see what will look best. Hope it helps!
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Maggie says
I just bought a little condo what has half carpet and half concrete floors. I thought it was sleek and modern, but I am shoked how often people see my concrete floor and ask when my flooring is arriving.
Melinda says
I’ve been looking for a white table just like the one in your yellow living room! Where did you find yours?
YoungHouseLove says
The round one was from Target (we put a bigger round tabletop on it from Lowe’s) and the rectangular desk was from West Elm (but they sell them on overstock.com too sometimes).
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