Floor!
My Laminate floor for the kitchen is "On the dock" at it's destination- I just checked the tracking number online.
Just last week, I learned that the floor I had decided upon ages ago was not going to work for me, and I spent the weekend in a tailspin over it.
I decided a while back to go for a wood laminate rather than Linoleum or Marmoleum (both of which look great in a period kitchen) because the footprint of the kitchen is a really odd shape, and those products look best when used in a checkerboard or with a pattern. I just did not think the shape of my room would lend itself to that.
So I decided to look for a wood laminate that would look like a planked floor as you might find in an older kitchen. Many of them are meant to look like 2" or 3" wood slats, but I wanted it to look really different from the real wood floor I'm laying it next to.
It turned out that the floor I chose was comprised of 4 ft wood slats that are beveled on all four sides! This means that you don't just have the lines running in one direction on the floor, you have them running in *both* directions - every four feet!
Luckily, I found two other products that filled the bill. I ended up ordering it off of fastfloors.com - the floor shop nearby gave me a whole $0.30/sq. ft. professional courtesy. Thanks a lot, but I'd rather pay $2.00/sq. ft. less on line, and hope that it gets here in time!
It's the one on the left here.
We chose it over the other one because - even though they look very similar in the photo - the one on the right read as too yellow next to my dining room floor (which is what you see on the top of the photo.)