Purchase, not progress...

Yesterday Aaron and I stopped down to the Home Depot because he'd heard there was a sale on flooring. We'd already looked around online and it looked like flooring for the hall/dining/kitchen area was going to be about $700-800, not including extra supplies like underlayment or spacers. The "clearance" was really two small piles in the middle of the flooring isle with marked down prices, but luckily one of those items was a pretty "Sarasota Oak" by Trafficmaster that looks like it'll match well w/our patio door. It was only 98 cents a square foot and they had just a little over the amount we need (with lots of room for mistakes) left in stock. Since we didn't want someone else to snatch it up, we loaded up my little Mirage with the 14 boxes. Including supplies for laying it down and the underlayment foam, it was just over $480. With any luck, we'll even have a box or two to return. My Mirage is definitely not made for hauling heavy loads... just driving Aaron back to the apt (he had to work overtime) and over to the house to unload burned 1/4 tank of gas!

It's now all waiting patiently on some cardboard in our garage until we've pulled up the current flooring and gotten it all prepped. Aaron has hopes for this week, but I'm thinking more like this weekend if the vinyl-removal doesn't cause too many problems. First task on the list is finishing the insulation - I have the crazy idea that maybe we'll go all out and finish that tonight, even though we have about half the crawlspace left! We've got the supplies, so it's a matter of time and fiberglass tolerance, wish us luck!