#the 8x10s have especially gotten expensive

[vodid]

my print manu has raised some of their prices so if some of my products cost a little more, that's why!

[rgr-pop]

unfortunately i think it is time to take out the upstairs carpet. been spending a lot of (warm weather) time in my office, there’s a smell we just can’t get out from when hillary lived in there. this means i have to do the floors. i genuinely do not like the experience of wood flooring unless it is extremely nice, i sleep on the floor more often than not, and my house is going to be so much colder!

right now our downstairs both dining room and living room are carpeted, that carpet runs up the stairs into the hall and my office room. the third room (”a/v room”) has an unrelated nice berber but I think it’s unpadded. not good for sleeping. our bedroom has unrefinished wood floors, there was unglued shag in there when we moved in that was much older than anything else we had and we took it out first thing. the floor in there is definitely in a place where it would finish up nice, but I find it unpleasant as it is. it’s a deep berry tone, which is mainly just the way the varnish aged, but I hate berry toned woods. the trim upstairs is also in that neighborhood. I have a suspicion that (as was common in this kind of house) the upstairs had different wood flooring than the downstairs, which does track with the rest of the trim (golden oak downstairs, which I hope we find in the floor, too.) 

our plan had always been to do the dining room first (as a person who grew up mainly in apartment complexes, even as a carpet stan I would like to Not Have Carpet In My Dining Room). I’d really like to have carpet in the living room but it wouldn’t be a good financial decision in the immediate. what I decided to do would be to finish the floors downstairs (hopefully getting them to a really luminous and glossy gold) and then spend a few hundred dollars on a rug from a carpet company that takes up the whole living room up to maybe a 2 foot perimeter--probably like 8x10? 10x12? you can get something like that padded and edged at a carpet place for less than a few hundred dollars, especially cheap if you find a remnant. this would give me all the floor sitting luxury that I require but it would also give me what I wouldn’t be able to afford if I got install: color! my vision for this room is a deep vibrant blue, but if the wood flooring turns out light I might want black.  it is very hard to find colorful domestic carpeting and they REALLY try not to sell it to you, so doing it this way would be ideal. 

however, I also absolutely absolutely need carpeted stairs--I love to fall down the stairs I guess!. I think there are plenty of decent looking examples of runners-only. we could DIY this but it’d be a small enough project to have done professionally.

but anyway, we’re going to have to start with my office, which feels like it might be the worst off floor--haven’t gotten a good look at it yet, though. it’s a tiny tiny tiny room so I could just put a rug down (read: rugs are very expensive but not necessarily that small), however I do want to think more carefully about this: I don’t want to put too much into the floors in there because that’s where I paint and stuff! which is why I wanted to keep this carpet for basically ever (it still looks good but it’s fine when I drop something on it, can’t care). 

point being... I think I would like to do the upstairs wood floor black. this is a very me impulse obviously! but black would probably be easier to achieve but also, like, decadent. maybe not opaque black but definitely not a grey-ashy stain, either. and extremely shiny! my only reservation is that I almost always see this done with light neutral walls. where this would be: my bedroom is a dark plum (but we have glowing oak furniture in there so I think this would be such a great jewel box impact, it’s also extremely tiny), the a/v room is red right now but I’m trying to repaint it a dark color (maybe I could do dark floors dark walls white rug and then either loud or dark furniture? this room is going through changes right now. trying to give it a real lounge vibe), and my office is 2 white walls + 1 brown cork wall + 1 football helmet wallpaper wall (tho my furniture is 70s office black steel + wood laminate so I think this could work). 

a cool advantage of doing the black upstairs would be if I fall in love I could do the downstairs too. it would give me extreme pleasure to have black floors plus the light walls and all the color everything + black case furniture + dining chairs in here, tbh! which may also be a good case for doing a black rug on light oak floors

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