I just spent over six hours tiling our downstairs hallway. Our downstairs, as we live in a raised ranch, consists of a laundry room, garage, bathroom, family room, and a spare bedroom. Every room on the level enters into this smallish hallway. All told, it’s probably 12 feet long by 4 feet wide, with one zig-zag.
When we moved in, the family room, bedroom and hallway all had this brownish-gray carpet, which was a bit stained up and the color was just dreary. We replaced the carpet recently in the two rooms with more wall-to-wall, but significantly lighter in color. This left the hallway with the bare commercial style flecky asbestos-containing tiles, which, in addition to just being pretty ugly, were also slippery as hell, as my ankle can attest when I came off the stairs too quickly and completely wiped out, twisting said ankle in the process.
I had previously selected and bought for the floor vinyl plank peel-and-stick tile at Lowe’s. I cannot find the stuff I bought on the Lowe’s website, but here is a similar product, in a very similar color. (The stuff I got at Lowe’s was only 98¢ a square foot, though.) I found myself with some free time today, as Lane took an impromptu trip to Buffalo with her Grandpa Jerry. (Jake and I will be going in two days to rendezvous with here there, and then Friday we’ll drive to the Albany area to visit friends.) So I started on the tile project, and between Jake playing well by himself for awhile, and then taking a 3+ hour nap, I was able to finish the whole hallway. And might I brag, it looks pretty darned good! The stuff was easy to install and really looks nice. For peel-and-stick vinyl tile, at any rate. It just needs to be trimmed out with some new quarter-round and those metal threshold things and we’ll be all set. Yay!