Pergo It Is

So the carpet in the main living area of our condo is pretty disgusting.  I won’t go into why, but let’s just say it has mostly to do with the kitties and is not due just to regular wear and tear.

With a little one on the way who will eventually be crawling all over, we’ve been looking into a less holds-in-the-gross kind of floor, aka wood instead of carpet.  We started out hoping for hardwood, but found out our subflooring doesn’t allow for hardwood, but that we’d have to go with engineered hardwood or laminate.  Casey is pretty against laminate,  so we got some quotes for engineered hardwood.  The prices were a bit scary for us and we decided to postpone making changes until my contractor Dad could come down and help.

Then we went to our friend’s house for our baby shower and they had awesome looking floors.  Awesome looking laminate floors that is, which they had installed themselves.  They have two dogs and a ten month old baby and the floors looked great – which got us talking about laminate, where before Casey was completely against it.  His main reason for not doing it was resale, but since we aren’t going to be able to sell our condo for quite some time, and since laminate seemed from example to be a durable floor for pets and babies, we decided to take a look.

Thankfully we didn’t have to look long, which is important since the baby countdown is progressing quickly.  We went on Sunday and found floors we really liked.  The best part: they were super on sale.

Casey was still unsure and we didn’t pull the trigger right then, but with my encouragement, his disgust with our carpet, and some info from his parents about their success with Pergo, we went back tonight and made the big buy.  Soon our place (at least the floors) will look beautiful like this!:

I am so excited that we’ve taken the first step.  Of course, now we have to figure out when to pull up carpet and install floors in between other baby preparation, work, and Casey studying for his first CPA exam section.  Not to mention all before a baby arrives in less than two months… well really, whenever he’s ready!