FLOORING CHANGE IN PLANS

Black and white vinyl flooring

As often happens in remodeling, and as we discovered the other day with the utility sink, your original plans don't always come out as you had hoped.  We've been lucky, so far we've been able to do just about everything we wanted to do.  But nothing good is ever without compromise, and today we had to compromise on the vinyl flooring.

As you know if you've followed the blog, we have 4 areas that we want vinyl flooring in.  The mudroom, the bathroom, the sitting area, and the entryway.  Being a pier and beam house, we can't go for tile, there is just so much settling still going on from the foundation repair earlier this year, we were leery of cracks in the tile, not to mention the expense.  We had already settled on a white and black checkerboard pattern, we thought that would be sufficiently retro.  That could be done with stick down tiles, but then the contractor recommended against that.  He said in a year we'd be dealing with curling edges in the seams, loose tiles, etc.  He told us that sheet vinyl was the best choice.

Unfortunately, we couldn't find any black and white checkerboard sheet vinyl, at a reasonable cost and on such short notice.  There was one place that had a sheet vinyl that probably would have worked but it was a 3 week custom order and was still pretty pricey.  We're just ready for this to be over so we can move on to the final stuff inside the house.

So we found this flooring above.  It's not exactly what we wanted, but it'll do.  The price is right, less than $1/sq foot, it's still got the white and black color we wanted (it looks a little off in this picture but we have a sample and it's definitely white and black) and best of all, it's available now.  So it was ordered, picked up and should be going down, possibly as early as today.  We think it will look good in the house, and if in a year or so we want to do something else, we haven't lost much.


UPDATE:

OK, now this is so awesome.  Look at this picture I found while looking for some retro images!  The floor looks almost exactly like the one we are getting!
I think this is a pretty neat turn of events.

Change IS good.