New Dining Room

     It's been a busy busy BUSY two weeks en la casa de los Falkners. We decided a while back to have our dining room floor redone, since I'm so handily hooked up at the flo' sto' and all. Our dogs had been using our rarely used, out of the way dining room as an occasional pit stop without our knowledge, and once we found out about it our wood floors were not in a good shape. We have rather nice wood flooring throughout the house, except for the bathrooms, laundry, and kitchen. So, of course we weren't exactly pleased when we found out we were having to rip up our dining room floor. My parents finally picked out a tile we all liked and that went with the red walls, the wood entryway floor, and the neutral kitchen tile. And we packed up all our chairs and china, moved the table and china cabinet - not the easiest thing, and got settled in for a week of dust and noise.
     Three days of working men in our house later, the fun process of re-installing the two-piece china cabinet, and cleaning, recleaning, and rerecleaning the floor...

The wood floor of the entryway (what used to be in the dining room) next to the new tile

The empty floor once we got the china cabinet back installed. It took a fair little bit of Dremelling and shoving to make it fit in the same cut-outs in the baseboards it came out of. Seems the new tile was a few millimeters taller than the old wood, so it threw off our old cutout heights...fun stuff!

Full room view...pre table and chairs. No, we don't keep our curtains tucked up in the windowsill on one side, that side was mopped under and the curtain was trying not to get wet.

     We just love it! My mom has been mopping constantly since we got in in, trying to get the last bit of grout residue off so we can show it off haha.