I decided on Wednesday morning that I just. couldn't. stand. the current floor. I don't know how long it'd been there, but it was a) light-colored - so showed dirt a LOT and b) so scratched up that even though I might mop it every day (which of course I don't), it NEVER looked clean. Neil had stayed over the night before because we were up watching a movie, so as we were enjoying our coffee, I blurted out, "I can't stand this floor! You've done vinyl tile before; how much do you think it would cost to replace this?" We did a bit of figuring and took a trip to Home Depot. We bought 4 boxes of vinyl tile for a grand total of $130 including tax. I bought Neil beer and cigarettes for his labor payment (bad, bad, I know, but hey...it's cheaper than paying him $20 an hour, which he deserves. And he didn't even want a carton of cigarettes, just a pack, because, as he said, "I'll just smoke more if I have more").
Oh, yeah, another cool thing about these tiles: you don't have to peel up the old flooring. You just make sure it's clean (which it IS, although you can't tell it from the pictures! :) and put the new down over the old.
All in all, a job VERY well done and VERY appreciated!
The old floor. Gross.
Up-close. Grosser.
My Neil with his pre-payment.
Hard at work, as you can tell.
Katie "helped", too. 
The juxtaposition of new and old makes the old look worse, if possible.
Done! Isn't it purty?
The obligatory Neil-being-creepy pose.
I didn't sleep there that night, although I considered it.
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Seriously, ya'll, you ever wish there was a cheap, easy way to make-over your kitchen? These stick-on tiles are it. They're like band-aids for kitchen decor. At one point Katie was installing them without supervision (admittedly, tres briefly.) Easy and cheap, ya'll! (inebriated homo not included.)
Nice! Looks great!!
Cool. I won't tell Hal, he did ceramic tile on our kitchen floor in SC (which we still own...) - but he did do the stick-ons in the bathroom, more needed to be cut in there and the ceramic is harder to cut.
THe new floor looks grand!
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