We have cherry wood floors next to lighter
Posted By: ceramic tile kitchen floors......nm on 2008-07-10
In Reply to: Need opinion on hardwood floor vs linoleum - new flooring
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Anything cherry or lemon! Bring it on!
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I forgot to add some cherry pie filling to top it all off with that
but just even plain it looks good. Wish I had a microwave. I make a steamed chocolate cake in a pan called a turbo cooker. It's basically like a steamer. I add diet coke to it and it's like eating chocolate air. Mmmmmm
On a lighter note -
its FRIDAY!!!!!! WOO HOO Thank goodness, what a long week I've had.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
Did you catch Gene Simmons' rectal examination and colonoscopy Tue night. The KISS demon himself. hahahaha
*ears perk up* cherry cream?
That sounds YUMMY! Oh, and if you had a piece of chocolate cream with it...
I think I'm going to follow you. Wish I had a MIL that made good pies. It would make it all worth it. lol
I wouldn't have to worry about keeping my mouth shut...It would be full of pie!
The older you are, the lighter the makeup. SM
That Bare Ecentials brand is good. Looks natural, but covers flaws.
I'm using Sally Hansen Spray Makeup. Use a moisturizer first, then spray makeup on sponge. Cover with some light powder and some blush. Really light eyeshadows, since I have circles around eyes. If needed, some eyeliner (not black) and mascara.
Agree, but on a lighter, but actually maybe a more serious note...
I blame Ronald Reagan for taking down the solar panels Jimmy put up on the White House. Just think of what we could have accomplished all these years had they taken seriously the concerns of the 'environmental doomsdayers.'
Actually I blame us...
I love fall - beef stew & cherry pie nm
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LOL. I hear ya! They're $3.50 here, but box feels lighter! NM
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Traffic is lighter earlier in the morning
And you'll have a little extra time at your vacation destination! I'm usually geared up to go on vacation anyway and it doesn't seem too awful to have to get up early and go!
Hope you have a great time!
they stopped making Chocolate Cherry Diet Dr. Pepper
I feel your pain!!!!
floors--sm
are more than likely plywood. Every mobile home I ever had, and much newer than the one you have, all had plywood floors. I would suggest having a contractor look at those walls too. most of them seem to be load bearing and I personally would not mess with them. But that is just me.
Floors
I bought one about a year ago, rather than buying a new one I bought a definite "fixer upper" and made it into what I wanted. I didn't tear out walls but painted all the paneling, tore out all the carpet - some of the floors were bad and creaked so put down new subfloor and then put down the snap and groove laminate that Home Depot/Lowe's sells -all the work on the floors (14 x 72 plus 2 add on rooms) didn't cost me but about 1300 but we did to it ourselves.
I used to use Mop & Glo on my floors
Vinyl, slate, and wood. It worked great and was easy to use, though my wood floor got darker after about 5 years (golden pine), but could get the buildup off using a credit card (good use for them LOL). The wood underneath was nice and bright again, but never did get around to getting it all off. Need something larger than a credit card.
Best Floors with Pets
I'm considering doing all new floors in my house. Hardwood on the first floor and carpet on the second floor. Any recomendations on what is best (most durable) considering I have a small dog? I really like dark wide plank hardwood but am worried it might show scratches the most. Also I'm thinking berber carpet for the second floor.
Laminate floors
We have laminate floors in our study and while for the most part I am very satisfied, the area under our computer chairs is getting very worn (this is a brand new house, we moved in in July 2006). I got one of those clear vinyl floor mats for under my chair to minimize further damage but my husband refuses to do that for his and it's looking worse every day. What kills me is the laminate in the study was *his* idea. Go figure.
Anyway....if it were me, I would still consider the laminate, but put down rugs in any high-traffic areas. Laminate looks good and for regular household areas like a kitchen or dining room it should be fine.
Laminate floors
Does anyone have laminate flooring in their home, and what have you found to be a good cleaner? I had laminate floors in my previous home and had no problems with it whatsoever, as far as streaking, etc. So, I put it almost through my new house, but it streaks at times. Any suggestions?
Laminate floors
Misha, how do you clean your laminate floors? I had laminate in our previous home and had no problems with streaking with what I cleaned it with. My new home has a large area of pergo (5 rooms), and I am having problems with streaking, even though I use the same product I had at our previous home. Can't figure this one out? Any info would help me out a lot. Thanks.
Getting new hardwood floors. They are going to put down pre-finished. (sm)
I haven't picked out style and colors yet. I know I don't want really dark or really light, but there are sure a lot of variations in between. Different size planks too. Anyone had good/bad experiences with the prefinished ones?
Sorry, that is plank vinyl floors
I second that. I love my hardwood floors (sm)
It just makes your house look spacious and clean. I live in Florida and all of my friends have the hardwood floors throughout their house. We have had to slowly replace the tile, so at times we had tile and hardwood and it did not look bad, but looks so much better with the same flooring throughout the house. Good luck with your decision. I just went out and bought the Shark Steamer, only used it once, but so far I like how well it keeps the floors clean.
Yeah, I really want hardwood floors. The house
came with the tile, and I hate it. I want to change it all out one of these days.
Thanks for the info. I will go ahead and get me one and try it. :)
Refinish plant vinyl floors....
It has been six years since we put in plank vinyl (wood look) floors and they no longer shine like they use to. Any recommendations on what to use and can you use anything? Thanks
'Brite'. That stuff is awesome for shining up old floors.
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The wood will last longer if you
use containers inside of it. If you want to disguise the containers you can put something like spagnum moss over the dirt and let it cover the edges of the container(s).
Sounds like it is going to be neat. What kind of plants? Climbing vine?
Always better on the wood stove...
My grandfather had a room in the back of the house that was heated by wood stove (they got central heat when I was a kid, but he closed off the vents and heated that room with a wood stove because he liked it better). Sometimes my grandmother would cook in there just because it tasted better.
wood stove
That really was the good ole' days......
Wood stove
My ex-inlaws still use one.
Any one out there using a wood burning - sm
stove for heat? Preferably a Glacier Bay stove but if not please feel free to chime in. We just bought an old Glacier Bay wood stove so we can supplement our propane heat next winter as the cost of propane is a bit higher this year and he hears they plan to start taxing it to death soon, so we figured this is a good way to cut costs, etc. This particular stove has 2 decorative embossed doors on the front with a winter cottage scene, house in snow/pine trees, really very nice. Apparently originally they were highlighted wtih a bronze or silver finish, according to the sales brochure the previous (or original) owner had. Really very nice looking. They were a rusty gray which my DH refinished yesterday and painted black with the stove paint they gave us. The previous owner refinished everything but the doors. They are solid steel. So my question is does anyone have any idea how we could refinish the doors to their original glory? Or where we may take them to get them restored? It looks great now but obviously would look fantastic if we could re-highlight the higher raised parts of the scene. If I can figure out how to post picture I may do that later today.
Bamboo? Not really a wood, rather a grass
I pulled out all my carpet (have a very hairy cat who sheds constantly) and put in 1400 s.f. of bamboo bought from Lumber Liquidators. It's not really wood, though it looks just like wood, it's really a grass made into wood-looking flooring. Easy to take care of too. My cat throws up too but now on the floor (and not the rugs that I now have in several places. *S*
Once I did this, I could now *see* the dirt that I couldn't really *see* in carpeting and one gets to see what y'all have been breathing in (with carpeting) for decades no matter HOW much one vacuums. I must say we are all BREATHING better since I got rid of the wall-to-wall carpeting!
Best of luck in whatever you choose to do. *S*
If you don't already have a wood scratching post - sm
get one, you say you have some cat things, but is it just plaing wood, not one of those carpeted ones. I got ours at PetsMart, it is a special wood post with holes in it to "attract" the cat. We got ours when she was a kitten and has always uses just that. There is the stray try on the bedpost or dresser, but luckily I have always seen these attempts and just yell at her and she stops; so far no harm has been done as I have always caught her before she dug in. The only other thing she likes to claw at is an exercise mat (one of those that go under a piece of equiment), we have it over the brick pad in our kitchen (for a wood stove that we do not have) so the kids would not fall and hurt themselves. The cat loves to claw on that, I generally let her though cleaning up the little black pieces is a drag, though the vacuum gets them up quite nicely. But she leaves the furniture alone except to lie on it and sleep all day! My daughter wants to get another cat, I don't, can't believe we would get another that would be so good. I guess you could just keep a really good eye on them and if they start to scratch, maybe use a spray bottle on them to deter them, or a sharp no (that is what I do when I catch her in her rare lapses). I hope you find a solution.
If you do it yourself, practice on some scrap wood a few
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The wood chucks eat everything in our little burg
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My last MIL cooked everything on wood stove
and things were delicious. She never had electric nor gas and probably would have never wanted one. How she did it, I will never know. She cooked everything from collard greens to breads such as biscuits and cornbread. Yum, yum.
We have wood laminate and LOVE it easy to
throughout our main floor other than the bedrooms and it is very easy to care for (we have 1 dog and 4 small kids). We also have Frieze carpet in our downstairs it is light beige, but has flecks of darker colors in there and our dog (and kids) have thrown up on it many times and you can't tell. I do however have a Bissel shampooer that I use whenever something happens to the carpet, but it seems to wear really well.
Maybe you could get wood, Pergo style or tile?
Of course if your carpet is in good condition, that could really hurt the pocketbook.
We have Pergo (Wilson Art brand, actually), and it works well for the dogs, although it is a little slippery and cold. (My dogs like cold though, and our carpeting was trashed). Real wood would be warmer. You'd need to keep nails cut and discourage running in the house to keep it looking really nice though.
Question re wood laminate flooring
We have wood laminate flooring in our study, which we love. However, we are going to put a room-sized rug in there because my beloved dog, Fox, a 10-year-old Pomeranian, not only has problems with patellar luxation (with four surgeries on his back legs in his first 3-4 years) but now has chronic dislocation of his right shoulder. So you can imagine how much trouble he has trying to stand up on the slippery wood laminate floor. We have tried putting down runners all the way across the floor, plus he has a bed and a blanket down there, too. But it is much cooler lying on the floor, so that's where he stays. He is in here with me all day as I work, but every time I get up, he gets up, scrambling like crazy to get his balance and get his legs firmly under him.
So....to my question. This is a fairly nice rug we are buying, but it says it has a polypropylene backing. Should I get some kind of pad to go between the rug and the laminate floor? I have included a link below, I don't know if that will give you any more information. But I don't want to damage the laminate - the backing on one of the original runners I bought (cheap, from Wal-Mart) stuck to the floor. It didn't damage it, but it was a very small area and I found it fairly quickly. This rug is going to be on the floor long-term.
Thanks in advance for any info! 
Love the Wood Wick candles...sm
sounds like a crackling fire...and they are strongly scented - excellent quality. I also like the Swan Creek Candles. They are highly scented and have some delicious scents. My favorite is Buttercream Vanilla and they have crumbs on top of the candle that melts...wondeful...
Never heard of Circle E candles but try Swan Creek if you see them!
Holly Wood &Harry Marble (nm)
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Actually, was thinkin with aggressive scratching wood ones
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We put in a wood stove - I haven't used natural gas
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She needs hard things to help wear the tooth down. Try clean branches, a wooden spoon, wood chews
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