Here we Are In 2021- Some New Upgrades to Show.

 A lot has happened in the last few years. Our family has experience Sickness ,Death and Life Changes that are hard to deal with. So many news' in our life. One thing is we have now officially Retired. This happened the same time as Covid hit the USA. We had so many Plans for this new life style. Travels planed as well as some upgrade to our Two houses. We were able to get one of our trip in before the quarantine hit. Now we are in the  end phrase of getting the vaccines so we can start traveling again. In the Meantime the decision to have the upgrades to the house started.

The first thing we did was the  lower deck. We decided to go with a composite that would not need to be repaired as much as the Wood. It also saved the life of Trees, since we went away from Wood decks.

 

the Lower deck, shed side to the brick walkway

 

 

Lower deck Gazebo house side.

Lower deck view to the upper deck.

Went with solid Hickory flooring for the main level of our home.

The Dining room into the kitchen. One smooth entrance. We also painted all the halls in the Dinning room and Hallway.

 

 

 Enter hall is great with not transition strips now. It use to be all tile with the carpet in the two room off the hallway.

 

 

Dining room so much better. that original flooring with split, tile and carpet.  Love the way it looks now.

 

 

Living room, use of rugs help with the Echo sounds. It is a very large room.

 

 

 

The hallway and the bathroom. Into the kitchen. One thing we decided was to make the flooring continuous with no transition strips. Glad we did that. Has totally upgrade the  house. bring it into the  new century.

this is the stair to the second floor. the Second floor has Bamboo flooring.Which we installed a few years back.

Green Flooring forMy Vintage Sewing Room

We went out looking at Green flooring. There are so many incentives for making your home green. It helps to offset some of the cost. Cork and Bamboo are among the Greener choices. One has to make sure the the polyurethane used on the cork is green, with no VOC gases. We brought home some samples, one of a cork{pictured upper left} and the other of Bamboo. For years I have been seeing Bamboo and not liking it. Then yesterday I saw one online I absolutely loved.

This is the Bamboo sample we brought home

This is my choice, for the Vintage Sewing Room. I love its' character as well as you can not really tell that it is Bamboo. It is a great Natural Eco-Green Choice, so much of it growing and it replenish itself rather fast. Faster then Oak or many other woods. Wood flooring are consider green. However it takes a lot of trees to make flooring and the growing period for those tree are over a century. Bamboo is very durable and harder then Red Oak or Maple making it a great Eco-Green friendly choice. Now we shop around for a good price, Hubby loves to Bargain Hunt. So, we have several installers coming to the home these next few weeks. I just want this flooring from Teragren. This particular flooring is about 1/2 inch thick solid Bamboo. Style is called Synergy, color is Brindle I'm done looking. My Vintage Sewing Room is ready to begin progress.