Master Bathroom Peel and Stick wood plank flooring

by Cason Smith

Hey ladies and gents ...

(Let's pretend there ARE "gents" out there, other then me)

I thought it was about time, for me to take over a post or two on this blog of "OURS" to let you know how things are going around here.

Shelley seems just a bit too busy...

 to post about the little happenings and projects that we've been working on in the last few months, so I'm taking over, to help out.

Okay, to be fair, she's really been swamped in vinyl orders, blog business stuff, kids school and projects, but I just found this in her computer files from yesterday when she got her "hair did", and it was just too funny not to post.

I have issues over how much that camera is attached at her hip... Kind of obnoxious sometimes, right guys?

"Instead of taking pictures of the mirror falling off the wall on top of me...

why not give a guy a hand!" :)  J/K

Love you, babe.

Most of all I was told by my Dad, before I got married that 

"A Happy Wife is a Happy Life".

(I want it in vinyl somewhere, but Shelley says no-way, because she thinks people will figure that she's just trying to brain wash me with vinyl lettering quotes. ha!)

Really though.  It's so true.

Give a little, take a little.  Isn't that what marriage is all about?

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Okay, so this last week we installed a new floor in our master bathroom.

Thanks to my wife, and her spontaneity...

With the budget for this project dwindling down fast, we decided that we would go the peel and stick rout, for our flooring option.

Have you tried this stuff?  It's awesome and CHEAP!

Shelley saw this idea first, on Kevin and Layla's blog and knew it would be a good alternative for us in this space, since we didn't want to strip the old linoleum and move the vanity to lay down the real hardwood flooring.

We bought our peel and stick planks at Lowes.

Shelley will give you more specifics on that later, I don't want to think logisitcs right now, that's Shelley's department...

hence the reason I'm not the "main blogger".

We started with a coat of self stick tile primer.

I painted a thin coat of this stuff straight onto our old linoleum, to fill in any cracks or holes.

After we let it dry, for about 20 minutes, we started laying down the planks.

Once we got to the toilet, I had to disconnect it, so I could stick some of the planks under the toilet base.

This is where the funny comes in.

For those of you SHELLEY who haven't taken off, or even seen a toilet out of it's place, it's really easy.

First, you shut the water off.

Then you drain all the water out of the tank, by flushing it.

Once that's all done, you just lift the entire toilet straight up, so that you don't break or mess up the beeswax seal that is under the toilet, around the pipe, and then you're done.

Easy.

Now you can actually lay flooring around the toilet base, or get to that small space of wall to paint it or whatever.

So, while I was convincing my crazy clean freak dear wife that the beeswax seal was just, that ...

BEESWAX and NOT "nasty yucky brown stuff", she looks over into the empty toilet bowl and says...

are you ready for this?

"What the!?.... CASON!

Someone put a necklace in HERE!"

HAHAHAHA! Oh I love her.

Now that was a DIY learning moment at it's finest.

Don't worry, I explained it all to her.

While that chain might LOOK like a necklace, it's actually,
ummm never mind, no one needs a lesson on toliet guts :)

MOVING ON

Okay, so down to business.

The wood planks can just be cut with a utility knife, so we got to cutting the strips where we needed them, to finish things up.

Once you've scored them, you can just bend them like this,

to break them apart.

Really easy.

Peel off the back, and stick down.

Man!  This has got to be our easiest, and probably cheapest project to date.

We only spent about $45.00 on this whole floor, including the primer.

Now I've got to get back to work.

I'll let Shelley take it from here, with some pictures of the finished floor in the daylight.

Thanks for letting me takeover today, ladies.

I'll have to interject a little more often, don't forget why,

"A Happy Wife is a Happy Life"... Live by it, men, It Works.

Blog Updated = Happy Wife

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Shelley:

Hardy, har, har, har
What a nerd!  I love that kid.
And PS.
It's not like I'm adjusting settings on my camera to get the right lighting while the mirror was falling on top of the guy!  I totally used my automatic functions to snap the picture asap, so that I could still help him!
jessh... I'm not THAT heartless!
:)

Oookay, so really...now that I have full reign, back over my blog...
I'm here to share some photos of what we have so far.
First off... these faux wood planks are from Novalis.  Our local Lowes carries them.

And this is what the Self stick tile primer, and low nap roller looked like, that we bought.

Today our floor looks like this!

Now... if you're thinking one of these two things...

A:  Warm brown wood flooring?  Thats not what I was expecting.

or

B:  Woah!  Wood planks on the walls, Wood colored cabinets AND wood floors!?

this chick has lost her mind!

Well... then you're probably in the same boat as my husband.

So just grab a paddle, and ROW ALONG!

Because you don't see the VISION!

LOL...

I kid, I kid.

It's going to come together, I promise!  And I love the texture and movement that the wood grain gives to the space.  If it was a perfect world, I could have gotten the box of dark mocha flooring for $179 a box and have a handy man install it, after he ripped out my vanity and linolium... but instead.

I wanted it done in ONE night, with VERY little work  :)

I can be quite impatient.

Probably the BIGGEST thing that bugs me, as of right now...

Don't worry.  It won't be like that for long.

I have plans.

Muah, ha, ha, ha!!!

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Okay... not really.

I don't have any plans other then to find someones number in the greater Salt Lake area, to come out and give me a bid on how much this puppy will be, to paint!

lol.

I posed the question on my facebook page the other day...

 "I'm thinking I want to hire the painting of my bathroom vanity out, so it gets done right! Would that be a complete DIY blogger "no-no???"

Either way... I'm on the prowl.
I need a professional cabinet painter.  I'm not willing to tackle this project alone.  Those babies cost WAY too much to have any "oops's" on them.
So this room MAY just have to look a bit "cabin-ish" for a while,
till we can find a reliable good vanity painter.

Bear with us, folks.  We're gettin' there.  One project at a time.
We'll keep you posted!
:)

UPDATE:
We get asked a lot if our peel and stick flooring has held up okay... and the answer is YES! It's doing awesome :) We have water on it all the time, because this where we shower and bathe our kids mostly, and it's held up perfectly! Like I mentioned before, just make sure you have a really clean, dry surface for your peel and stick pieces BEFORE you lay them down.