Renovation - Week 26

Not much happened on the outside of the house this week because it was too busy snowing! The middle of April and it's snowing - that's just not right!

Inside the house, our bamboo flooring arrived. Right now we have to open up all the boxes and let them sit around for a week so they can acclimatize to the house. While we're waiting for that to happen, we've got two important jobs:

1. I need to take the 4x10 sheet of bamboo plywood and create the nosings for around the top of the stairs. That won't be too tough, but then we have to stain and varnish the plywood so that it looks good with the floor.
2. We have to decide how we're going to install the floor. We're debating between:
• On the diagonal - there's a natural diagonal in the house from the top of the stair to the hallway and we can lay the flooring to match. It's a good look, and not something you see every day.
• Lengthwise - this makes the space seem bigger, but its much more traditional. However Christine would really like to get some curves into the house, so it would allow us to do something interesting with the tile at the front entry way.

To help us decide which way to lay the floor out, I quickly pieced some of the flooring together. Unfortunately, both looked good, and we didn't have an obvious winner.