The floor BEFORE

We are having the carpet and linoleum pulled up in our dining room, kitchen and family room and hardwood put down (which matches the hardwood that was already in our foyer).

When we first bought our house almost 9 years ago, the choppiness of the flooring--wood butting up to carpet, butting up to linoleum, butting back up to carpet--didn't bother me.  But now, perhaps because our space seems so much smaller due to all the toys and baby whatmenots, I need the rooms to flow, feel seamless, feel larger.

Mostly, I need to not have to clean up cat vomit, marker, juice, cheesy poof residue out of cream (or what used to be cream in a former child-free life) carpet.

And the linoleum?  Well all it takes is 1 dropped fork to put a puncture in it.

So here is how it looked prior to the demolition.

The dining room

The kitchen eating nook

The kitchen proper

The family room