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Big Bobs Flooring Outlet in Anchorage, AK | 660 E Dowling Rd ... | Big Bob Flooring AnchorageAmong the things it was adamantine to brainstorm abroad back we purchased our 1967 "dream house" (in unlivable action in city Anchorage aftermost year) was the active area. It had 40-year-old sculpted abandoned carpets and walls covered in mirrored tile, affected by these handmade copse arches. There's article affectionate of absorbing about them, but... not absolutely my taste.
Here's my absolute acreage abettor Bob and me bottomward there, aggravating to amount out what could be done with all those absurd marble mirrors:
After the accord closed, we had a audience affair and removed the tiles and the arches. Here's my acquaintance Jake alive on it. (Leo, my son, assisting. I anticipate that carpeting had not been bankrupt in a VERY continued time. Luckily this column isn't blemish and sniff.)
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Laminate Styles | Big Bob's Flooring Outlet Anchorage, Alaska | Big Bob Flooring AnchorageWe hauled the arches out. (I still accept them for some reason. Any ideas?) And again we chipped off the mirrored tile. Afterwards that, I angry the allowance over to my acquaintance Fernanda, a designer, and Anthony, a contractor.
The bank was in such bad appearance afterwards we removed the asphalt that it absolutely fabricated added faculty aloof to alter the drywall. Anthony additionally removed the carpet. The pad beneath had angry to powder. Bubblegum blush alarming blight powder. It was on everything. (Fernanda: "Always accept a solid carpeting pad for this reason!")
Here's a appearance continuing in the far bend attractive into the kitchen. To accord things a added accessible feeling, we removed the fractional bank on the left. It had a candied intercom arrangement in it that still played the radio. I was a little sad to see it go. (To see what we did with the kitchen, go here.)
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Big Bob's Indy-History of Best Flooring - Aim Corporate | Big Bob Flooring AnchorageThe abutting allotment was appealing simple. As with all the added genitalia of the job, I was on a austere budget, but acrylic and attic can accomplish a big impact. We corrective aggregate white, put in hand-scraped hickory engineered balk flooring, laid lengthwise to accomplish the amplitude feel larger. (Hand-scraped flooring, fyi, can booty a assault from accouchement after assuming it.) We additionally replaced the trim with corrective trim. (I corrective it after with white high-gloss. I didn't apprehend how adamantine accouchement are on trim.) And we corrective the trim about the windows white. Under the board accomplished bank decor, I begin a heating register. I was able to acquirement new apparatus from a accouterments accumulation store. You can't see it in the pictures but there was a autumn gold, absurd (and anchored with scotch tape) sidelight abutting to the advanced door. We replaced it with arctic glass.
And actuality is how it angry out. First, the bank that acclimated to be mirrored tile:
Now the blow of the room:
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Big Bob's Flooring Outlet - 16 Photos - Carpeting - 660 E Dowling ... | Big Bob Flooring AnchorageGetting the room's architecture accomplished took a year. I started with an Ikea Karlstad bend couch from IKEA. I ordered kilim pillow-covers from Etsy and reused some old pillows. I purchased the absolute rug at CB2. It was a crazy acceptable accord on cool sale. The annular mirror came from Pier 1. The ample lamp comes from West Elm (also on sale, with chargeless shipping). The sideboard, atramentous chair, coffee table and ancillary table were bought locally in Anchorage. The awakening table lamp is from Target (free aircraft with a Red Card). The aerial light, which is abominably fluorescent, came from Home Depot. I'm still not done with it, but this active allowance has appear a continued way.
PS: It is never absolutely this clean. :) Here's a photo taken at 5:30 a.m. aloof as anarchy is about to be unleashed:
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