Weekend Project

Before...

After a year of wear and tear...

After...

Re-painted and sealed

Finally back in one piece!

I LOVE projects! So a few weekends ago I under took a large one, because we have two dogs and a 9 year old, our carpets were THRASHED!! So last year we did some research and decided to rip out our carpets in the living room and the linoleum in the kitchen and hall way and stain the concrete. Unfortunately because our house was built before the staining and stamping were popular, the concrete company told me I couldn't stain or stamp it due to the paint stains on the concrete, but I could paint my floors with a special porch and floor paint and seal them and it would have the same look. After A LOT of work (I hope to never tear up linoleum again!) the floors were prepped and painted, but we never sealed them because we had to be out of house for a few days. But last weekend I had the crazy idea to repaint and seal the floors...man was it a project, but they turned out great!! We moved all the furniture, loaded up the dogs and Jonathan and headed to my parents for the weekend, to let the floors dry. I can't tell you how many compliments we have gotten on our floors! No more stains on carpet and even though it was a lot of work, it is a cheap solution for concrete floors that you can do yourself and looks great. A lady in our ward came over and asked Kasey how much we paid to have our floors redone - and she couldn't believe we had done it ourselves! (although I would highly recommend hiring someone to seal them!) I love it when home improvement projects go off without a hitch!