{Mudroom Progress} Installing Vinyl Plank Flooring

Hey, friends.  Before I acquire to the latest mudroom projection I desire to stimulate got a infinitesimal to give cheers you lot all for your sweetness comments from Monday.  I was a niggling hesitate to portion terminal Monday's post, but I'm hence glad I did.  The back upwardly from you lot all was unbelievable together with I am overwhelmed yesteryear all the sincere comments together with e-mails that I recieved.  If I learned 1 affair from opening upwardly together with getting personal,  it's that I am non alone.  I am honored together with extremely thankful that you lot all shared your ain struggles together with experiences.   It's hence slow to await to a greater extent than or less together with compare our lives to others, to mean value they stimulate got it together.  When inwards reality, everyone has some aspect of their life that isn't perfect.  No 1 is perfect together with that's okay, nosotros don't stimulate got to be.  I stimulate got to popular off along reminding myself that every bit long every bit my kids are happy together with experience loved than I am doing okay.  I am doing the best I tin together with my best has to live on practiced enough.

Taking a calendar week off has given me the chance to focus on what's of import together with likewise allow me to brand some progress inwards the mudroom.  Most people may recharge yesteryear relaxing, I on the other mitt notice joy inwards edifice together with getting projects done to a greater extent than or less the house.  Our mudroom add-on has been a piece of occupation inwards progress for over a year.  It's been partly finished together with the mess, dust together with bare plywood stimulate got been making me twitchy.  It was close fourth dimension I turned this hodgepodge storage surface area into actual living space.

You may recollect that this makeover is precisely temporary until nosotros do our total kitchen renovation.  The front end of the room volition withal rest a mudroom (eventually, amongst hardwood floors, built inwards cubbies together with plank walls) together with the dorsum of the room volition live on the kitchen addition.  In the hateful time, inwards lodge to acquire inwards livable I wanted to put downwardly cheap flooring.

As a reminder, here's what the room looked before.

As you lot tin meet it was becoming to a greater extent than of a storage room than an actual mudroom.  It's been long over due that the flooring acquire installed, but earlier I could showtime laying the planks I had to do a fighting of prep work.  I don't know what it is, but I dread prep work.  Maybe it's my impatient side that precisely wants to dive correct inwards together with acquire conduct to the after.   Regardless, prepping a projection is the most of import role together with needs to live on done.

First together with foremost, the natural language together with groove plywood needed to live on nailed downwardly together with level.  My hubby marked all the joists spell I screwed downwardly the floor.  I together with then used a store vac to vacuum every fighting of dust, dirt together with speck of forest off the floor.

Once I had the flooring build clean it was fourth dimension to prep the wood.  A primer is needed if you lot desire your vinyl planks to genuinely stick to the wood.   Do non skip this step, vinyl planks WILL NOT stick to bare wood.  We chose a multi operate primer that was diluted inwards a 1-1 ratio amongst water.  I only mixed the primer together with H2O inwards a bucket together with then rolled it on amongst a roller.

The flooring ends upwardly existence a fighting tacky in 1 lawsuit it dries.  I advise making certain you lot stimulate got plenty fourth dimension to prep together with put the planks inside the same 24-hour interval or inside a few days to eliminate your dainty build clean flooring getting dingy again.   

The vinyl planks genuinely went downwardly pretty quick.  The only surface area that required custom cuts was to a greater extent than or less the brick chimney.

For the fourth dimension being, I brought upwardly the kids toy box to acquire an sentiment what the surface area volition await like.

And what would a makeover live on without the obligatory earlier together with later picture?

I tin non believe how much the flooring has completely changed this space.  Even though the room has a long agency to go, at to the lowest degree directly it feels similar an extension of our domicile rather than storage space.  For those of you lot that are wondering, this is the flooring I purchased.  It's difficult to nation inwards some pictures, but it's genuinely pretty nighttime together with has a bully mitt scraped texture.

Still on the to do listing for this room:

- Paint the doors

- Build custom bench

- Update together with hang gratis lite fixture

- Install cut back molding

- Add sitting surface area on kitchen side

- Decorate

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