Modern Pad: Family room minus paneling.

So, when we bought this house, there was a room that connected to garage and main hallway.

This room was huge and really outdated. Paneling from head to toe and and painted concrete floors.
All of the angles are extremely weird and there are doors and windows on every wall. Oh yeah, and let's not forget the popcorn ceiling. Complete disaster but could become a great family room with a lot of work.

Sooo where do you start in a room like this?? Floors? Ceiling? Paneling?

Well, no matter where you start, you have to get the old stuff out before you can get the new stuff in...

So demolition took maybe 2 hours! So fast and easy. The clean up...not so much. I felt like the room was never going to get cleaned. So much dust and debri. HEAVY sheetrock. Tons of nails. You get the picture.

Well after we ripped out the ceiling. It started raining. and of course....THERE WAS A LEAK. So before we put up brand new sheetrock and everything, we had to call roof repair companies and get estimates to repair the flat roof above the room. We ended up going with Metro Gutter in Alexandria, VA. They did great work and got it done fast.

So 3 weeks before Thanksgiving, we offered to host the family gathering at our house. Which meant we wanted that room done before then. Mind you, there is no flooring, no walls, no ceiling. Not to mention paint, furniture, etc.

Before, the room only had an ancient ceiling fan and 2 wanna be recessed lights. HAHA John wanted 9 recessed lights in the room and he did an excellent job with it. It is nice to have a guy that can do stuff like that.

We had gotten several quotes from companies around our area. All were pretty much the same but Innovative Inc. said they could get the whole job done in 3 days! I couldn't believe it! They quoted us on Friday and started work Monday. They were done with everything but the trim on Wednesday afternoon. These guys were fast.

Next step was to paint...we wanted something fun and modern. We went with 'Cinnamon Red' and 'Classic Taupe' I spent my whole day Thursday painting the entire room. Ceiling, Walls, and that incredibly awful blue door.

Next, John spent the entire weekend before Thanksgiving laying floor. We were originally going to do stained concrete but after wasting nearly our whole day Friday and spending a couple hundred on tool rentals from Home Depot. We decided against it. Stripping paint and sealer from concrete is doable but you will spend either $1200 for someone else to do it or about a week doing it yourself. In 4 hours, we had stripped one tiny little row of concrete.

Anyways, so we decided to go with wood flooring and John did it himself. It turned out great! Even though it was a complete pain in the ass because of the angles in the room.

Finished product turned out awesome!