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Pearl came blessed with her original 1981 orange shag carpet. We knew we couldn't keep it clean. Sure, the red sands of PEI would blend in perfectly and Michael Kelso would think it was EVERYTHING, but...just no.

While Liam worked on cutting out the door panels with the skill saw, the others pulled up the carpet and scraped down the floor. Then, while I worked on covering the panels, they laid the new floor.

Originally we thought we'd just purchase a roll of thin vinyl, use the carpet as a template, cut one big piece of flooring, and call it done. But. When we went into our local flooring store, the shop girl convinced us what a horrible idea that was and took us into the back storeroom where we found one box of plank vinyl that we really liked the colour of.

We took her out to the van and she helped us do a quick measurement. She assured us the one box would do the job. But it would take every single piece. And we could not make a mistake because they didn't have more of that colour in stock. 😬

She gave us a quick lesson in how to apply the glue and sent us on our way with fingers crossed.

Turns out she was right. We used every single piece in that box. 37.2 square feet to be exact. Thank goodness we'd decided to keep the shag up at the front (you know, just in case Michael Kelso does ever get to see this thing 😜) or else we would never have had enough.

Flooring: Twelve Oaks-Endure Collection "Driftwood"

Adhesive: Henry 640 Vinyl Lock

Transition Piece (for where the vinyl meets the shag)

Stair Nosing (for where the vinyl butts up to the door)

$55.80 — Flooring

$10.00 — Transition piece and stair nosing

$27.04 — Adhesive

$3.59 — Spreader