Get Your
Money's Worth With Discount Laminate Flooring
Anyone that has been involved in a remodeling project knows that there are two
things that you can count on; one that the project will take longer than
expected and two that the project will cost more than you budgeted for. My
husband and I remodeled our previous house. Once we started in one room we found
that we needed to update other rooms in the house to have it flow well. One
project kept leading to another; before we knew it we had gutted the entire
house. What started as a thousand dollar kitchen remodel ended up being an eight
thousand dollar overhaul.
Even though we spent a great deal more money than we originally planned our
friends and neighbors could not believe the improvements in the house and how
reasonable the finished cost was. The way we were able to keep the cost so low
was that we found discount laminate flooring. When we first looked for flooring
for the kitchen I was willing to get linoleum because it fit into our budget.
Many of the new linoleums are nice looking and they are easy to care for. We
brought home several samples to help us decide what would look best in the color
scheme that we had picked out. One of the guys my husband works with mentioned
to him a warehouse store that sold discount laminate flooring. You had to
measure the space yourself and figure out how much you needed and you also had
to install the discount laminate flooring yourself, but he insisted that the end
product was much nicer than linoleum. He had purchased the flooring for his
entry as well as his kitchen. He welcomed us over to look at it.
If I had not known that the entry had laminate flooring I would have sworn it
was stone. The color and texture looked like an expensive stone tile. In the
kitchen he had installed a wood grain laminate that looked like hardwood. His
two areas were small so he was able to get a high quality product that had been
left over from another person’s installation. He told us the flooring is
considered a floating floor, which means you put down a piece of thin foam on
top of the existing floor and then piece the laminate together. They fit like
tongue and groove. Once you fit the pieces you glue the edges together. We went
and looked at the discount laminate flooring. We found a perfect stone look tile
for the kitchen as well as the entry. My husband’s co-worker came and helped us
install it. The finished look was wonderful and no more expensive than the
linoleum would have been once we would have paid for the installation. We have
since moved. The remodel job greatly increased the value of our home. We are now
considering a remodeling project in our present home.
Home
|
Living Room |
Dining Room
|
Family Room
|
Bedroom
|
Bathroom
|
Kitchen
|
Furniture |
Lighting |
Wall
Coverings
|
Floor
Coverings |
Window Treatments
|
Fabric |
Colors
