My husband and I started installing our new kitchen floor yesterday. It is called a "floating floor"; it's waterproof vinyl interconnecting (tongue and groove) planking. The flooring planks is a gorgeous gray patterned like wood, but each plank is different enough that if we put a couple of similar ones next to each other, it wouldn't definitely be noticeable. So I sorted the planks and arranged them for my husband to install to make sure that didn't happen. At first I divided the planks into about 5 different categories (oak pattern, other pattern, waves, knot, and plain) but then I realized there were several variations within those, so I ended up with 11 (oak pattern on top, oak pattern on bottom, other pattern to the left, other pattern to the right, other pattern centered, waves going up, waves going down, knot going up, knot going down, plain slightly curved up, plain slightly curved down). It was a delightful duty; I really enjoyed the sorting (it was crazy how many intricacies in the pattern I was able to identify, and I loved tapping into my organized, analytic, and creative sides), and of course I very much enjoyed working with my husband again, and I REALLY enjoy the result. We are only about one third of the way done, but it already looks amazing. The floor is SO much better than the white linoleum that used to be there. It looks so classy and clean and matches the blue grey colors of our kitchen walls perfectly. It's nice to be making our house the way we want it to be, especially now that we are spending most of our time at home.
With delight,
♥Jamie
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