No cutting corners.

Well, actually, just the opposite is true. For the last several days, I have cut MANY a corner (and angles, too) in my last big push to get this flip around the final turn and onto the home stretch. We are so close to market-ready, with only a few “bigger” jobs left to do.

Installing laminate floor in the kitchen is by far the largest task left to my immediate responsibility. Having already established that I am a second generation consummate do-it-yourselfer, have I also mentioned that there are other men out there who like to say, “It’s easy!” when it comes to doing a rather labor intensive task while they sit comfortably in an office somewhere else. Ah! There’s that word again–“easy.” They throw it to you like a life preserver. Supposedly all I have to do is just grab it.

Well, ninety minutes of  YouTube videos, a couple of boards cut too short, one cut backwards, a few nicked and dinged up corners, and the life ring comes into view. It’s finally starting to get easier, now that it’s almost done.

So, here I sit, with 14 empty flooring boxes, five or so still to go, surrounded by bits and pieces and ends and scraps of laminate. I have convinced myself of the existence of my own personal “easy” button. Yeah, I am close to the end and feeling perhaps a bit smug because I have tackled and completed something new and it looks and feels pretty good. The only problem I have now is that three of my family members have remarked that the former family home turned rental turned flip  is “nicer now than when we lived here.” I guess that is a good thing.