Oh it's not really all that risque! Actually I haven't read the book but I hear it really draws you in. I've got floors on the mind though not reading so let's get to it. Maybe as I write about these beauties I will magically make up my mind?
Most of the flooring in the new house is going to be stained concrete(the bedrooms will be carpet). While trying to get the house down to our target price range we came to the conclusion that wood would have to wait. The truth is even if we could do wood I don't know that we should right now. I don't like to worry about "stuff". Meaning I don't want furniture that can't take a beating from three youngins and a 90 lb. dog nor do I want to worry about scratched and damaged floors. When we were pondering the idea of wood we knew we wanted a rustic look to help combat the inevitable and wear well.
Like these babies.....Yummo!
Oh and to take those floors and do this herringbone pattern....
Be still my heart!
Ok so now that I have let go of those(sort of;) let's move on to reality.
I love concrete floors too! There is something rustic, natural, yet contemporary to them and all of those things float my boat.
The problem is there are lots of different colors to choose from and numerous different shades within those colors. So we have to decide:
Do we want light and airy with a more modern feel?
Or do we want to stick with the grey's but just go a little darker?
You can even go a really dark grey..
One thing that keeps coming up in our minds though is that even though we like the dark look it seems like the floors will look dirty? Like dusty ya know? Let me tell you a little dirty secret. I don't mop. I mean really it's a rarity. I feel like I'm doing good just to keep a whole plate of dinner off of the floor and thankfully our first born ( the Dog) takes care of that kind of thing. I hope to some day evolve back to my former clean freak self (maybe;) when my head is above water but for now I'm just gonna roll with it! Can I let you in on something else? If you are currently a clean freak(especially if you haven't entered into the world of kids) it really is not that bad of a feeling to not get around to mopping...I'm just saying. I feel like a freebird and a little like the rebel that I never was all because of a dirty floor! Woohoo!
And then there is brown....Rustic, warm and may hide the brown dog hair?
The floors below are gorgeous but too shiny? I think again for us they would need to be dusted a lot and we just like something a bit more rustic and less polished. They are so pretty though! Oh yes we have to decide how shiny we want them too. Decisions, decisions!
So what will we do? I still don't know. Man even after talking through it with you I can't decide.
Maybe we will do what we often end up doing...A mixture of both. Gray and brown? Not to shiny, just enough to camouflage the dirt and dog hair?
Hmm?
Most of the flooring in the new house is going to be stained concrete(the bedrooms will be carpet). While trying to get the house down to our target price range we came to the conclusion that wood would have to wait. The truth is even if we could do wood I don't know that we should right now. I don't like to worry about "stuff". Meaning I don't want furniture that can't take a beating from three youngins and a 90 lb. dog nor do I want to worry about scratched and damaged floors. When we were pondering the idea of wood we knew we wanted a rustic look to help combat the inevitable and wear well.
Like these babies.....Yummo!
Oh and to take those floors and do this herringbone pattern....
Be still my heart!
Ok so now that I have let go of those(sort of;) let's move on to reality.
I love concrete floors too! There is something rustic, natural, yet contemporary to them and all of those things float my boat.
The problem is there are lots of different colors to choose from and numerous different shades within those colors. So we have to decide:
Do we want light and airy with a more modern feel?
Or do we want to stick with the grey's but just go a little darker?
You can even go a really dark grey..
One thing that keeps coming up in our minds though is that even though we like the dark look it seems like the floors will look dirty? Like dusty ya know? Let me tell you a little dirty secret. I don't mop. I mean really it's a rarity. I feel like I'm doing good just to keep a whole plate of dinner off of the floor and thankfully our first born ( the Dog) takes care of that kind of thing. I hope to some day evolve back to my former clean freak self (maybe;) when my head is above water but for now I'm just gonna roll with it! Can I let you in on something else? If you are currently a clean freak(especially if you haven't entered into the world of kids) it really is not that bad of a feeling to not get around to mopping...I'm just saying. I feel like a freebird and a little like the rebel that I never was all because of a dirty floor! Woohoo!
And then there is brown....Rustic, warm and may hide the brown dog hair?
The floors below are gorgeous but too shiny? I think again for us they would need to be dusted a lot and we just like something a bit more rustic and less polished. They are so pretty though! Oh yes we have to decide how shiny we want them too. Decisions, decisions!
So what will we do? I still don't know. Man even after talking through it with you I can't decide.
Maybe we will do what we often end up doing...A mixture of both. Gray and brown? Not to shiny, just enough to camouflage the dirt and dog hair?
Hmm?
2 comments:
Great images! I love all the decisions you get to make. Loving the light gray or the brown. Honestly any of these choices are good, so don't worry too much about making a "bad" choice...
We considered concrete, but with the extra finish work involved, the extra protection it requires during the build, and the stain being a really unknown outcome based on porosity of the concrete (some floor areas absorb stain differently than others and will not be consistent generally), the cost of tile is about the same so we chose a basic tile.
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