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By: Veteran Military Wife at Life Lessons of a Military Wife

Veteran Military Wife at Life Lessons of a Military Wife — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:31:19 +0000

If I had to do it again, I would’ve picked laminate. I have beautiful wood floors…with many scratches and gouges. I have a German Shepherd who has the run of the house…don’t get nice wood floors if you have pets! I think laminate would’ve held up much better! Another option…and I didn’t even know this was available, but my neighbor has linoleum with wood grain and I’ll be darned if you can’t notice that it’s not laminate!…it looks that nice (and has held up over the last four years)!

By: PlasticRewards

PlasticRewards — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:09:47 +0000

We just had some friends that also just installed laminate flooring to replace the carpet and linoleum in their dining room and kitchen. What a difference it makes! It may not increase the value necessarily but could certainly be the deciding factor of someone buying your place over someone else’s.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:36:04 +0000

We just bought new flooring at home depot as well…but we bought hardwood for $2.72 as sq ft (the 20% off sale). We are putting it down ourselves too!

By: Lau

Lau — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:57:44 +0000

Bamboo is the way to go now, Dude …
A wee bit more expensive than laminate, but it’s beautiful, comes in every colors, it’s just as resistant as hardwood. The environmental impact, well…

By: Fiscal Musings

Fiscal Musings — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:53:43 +0000

We put in laminate flooring a couple of months ago and have really liked it. The front room is brighter and seems a little larger and more open. Good choice.

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:53:41 +0000

@FD, yeah I can’t wait to tear out the ugly carpet and the aging kitchen linoleum. However, since there’s no hardwood already under the dining room, I’ll have to wait a while on that. However, I can do the front room, kitchen and hall anytime. Oh, and we’ll be using the front room carpet for our mudroom (it’s still decent, if stained, berber) and giving the dining room carpet to my parents for their basement (it’s still in great shape, just ugly).

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:50:26 +0000

I really wish we had gone this route before moving into our house. I had some time before we moved in to knock out a couple small projects, but I have no experience in laying down wood floors, and at the time could not afford to hire someone to do it. We all have allergies, and I’m convinced the old carpet doesn’t help. Keep us posted how the project progresses next month.

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:24:01 +0000

Matt, other than hating the carpet in the dining room, the main motive for installing wood floors is the visual appeal, which of course would translate into a higher value (our intent). Yeah, it’s $2000 now, but the clean look it will add when you walk through the front door and see all the way through to the dining room will be well worth it.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:39:00 +0000

We put laminate flooring down in the bedroom that had this ugly cream colored carpet. The net result is that the place is worth more if we were to sell it. So that $2000 in laminate flooring might translate to more money when you sell your place (assuming you own it)