Last weekend, Andrew and I went shopping for a little comparison info on flooring before seizing the current Home Depot sale price on birch. We headed to tiny Tweed, Ontario, which has the distinction of being home to Gaylord Hardwood Flooring. In an old-fashioned downtown storefront, flooring is displayed on every surface. Walls, floors and ceilings are covered in gleaming oak, ash, maple and hickory, glowing by firelight or lit with track lighting. It was like shopping in a jewelery store of wood, except for the taxidermy deer peeking out here and there, to suggest a rustic setting (or support the local taxidermist?). Gaylord's promo of the week caught our eye - Brazilian jatoba.
Harder than hickory, deep russet tones, "art on the floor" in our eyes. We wouldn't need rugs or furniture - just pull up a pillow and admire the flooring! We nearly swooned. On sale for only $2,000 more than the Home Depot birch. Birch?! Whatever were we thinking, when we could have this Brazilian exotic, harvested with sustainable methods, of course, and regularly reforested... We asked for a quote on 1200 sq. ft. and drove off into the countryside, starry-eyed over gorgeous wood.
Next stop was Lowe's in Belleville, for energy-saving toilets. I never knew there was so much to know about a toilet... We chose a high efficiency model and Andrew started schlepping three out to the car (one at a time to take advantage of the $20/purchase coupon) while I took photos of tile for the
kitchen backsplash.
Once home, with three toilets and no flooring, H. gazed longingly at the jatoba sample and we tried to find money in the budget. The toilets didn't save us that much! The Home Depot sale ended before we got the jatoba estimate, so we ended up with the birch, in a cherry stain. Oh well - it will be covered with area rugs, and we're beyond sitting on pillows to admire the flooring. Whatever were we thinking? Maybe we could just hang some on the wall...
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