A Floating Floor
When we last left off in the basement bedroom, we had finished painting the walls. Next, it was time to lay the new floors! We chose a floating laminate floor that we found for $.68 per square ft on clearance at Home Depot. It is pretty close in color to the ceramic tile we laid in the living room downstairs. So we got 100 sq ft of flooring and 100 sq ft of foam underlayment and we were ready to go! (I think we spent more on the underlayment than we did on the flooring...go figure!) First we laid the foam underlayment. We started in the side of the room with the doorway, because that is where we planned to start laying the flooring. One of our favorite television personalities on the DIY Channel, contractor Mike Holmes, says you should always start your floor in the doorway of the room so that you can lay full pieces in the doorway, since that is what people see first when they walk into the room. Once we got a couple rows of underlayment down, we had to cut some pieces of flooring