Lesson Learned

When we started our home renovation {4.5 years ago}, we never dreamed it would take us this long to finish. We were hopeful that we would be finished by the 3 year mark. Sadly this was not the case.

Now we are being forced to wrap up all of the projects so that we can get our house on the market and get ourselves moved to Chattanooga.

The {most recent} dilemma we have faced is that our flooring is being discontinued. This would be of no consequence to us except for the fact that we did not have the foresight to buy all of our transition strips or stair treads. We have enough transition strips for two doorway thresholds, but we are having trouble getting a hold of transition strips for the others.

Two weeks ago, Daniel tried to purchase the transitions locally, but the store was having trouble getting what we needed {and they were not being up front about it, so we canceled the order}. 

Last week, we tried placing a special order at Lowes Home Improvement - which they evidently failed to place. This would put us in the position of having to wait an additional 2 weeks {from now} to get what we need. This is not really an option as we are attempting to put the house on the market in the next week {or two}. 

And then there was Amazon.com. Before Lowes told us they could order what we needed, Amazon had what we needed. TO SAVE TIME, we went with Lowes and now, to our chagrin, Amazon is sold out... do you feel our pain yet?

So, last night, we made our {daily} trip to Lowes and found some Caribbean Cherry that is a decent match to the Brazilian Cherry that is already installed in our house. It's disappointing that we can't find the exact product, but we don't have time to wait for transitions to be shipped to us {and with our luck, there would be more mess ups with orders}.

As to our stair treads, we opted to stain the original pine. It works and it's cheaper. Not perfect but it adds to the character of our home.

Lesson learned: Buy ALL of your flooring materials when you start. Otherwise four years may go by and you may find yourself pulling your hair out while trying to get what you need.

 

Brazilian Cherry (top) vs. Caribbean Cherry (bottom)