Shopping for the house

Not to get a house because we have one.. but shopping for stuff for the house.. yesterday R and I went into town to check out the Building Centres for flooring for our upstairs bedroom (where we have our computers and spend a lot of time) and went to three places to check on prices, we also wanted to get tiles for the upstairs bathroom.. we bought this place three years ago, it's an older home in the country and needs a lot of work.. including a new window in this bedroom as well as the flooring..

Anyway, we checked out the Home Hardware and saw some really different click tile, it's like laminate flooring but it has a black textured finish on it and it was 99cents a square foot.. not a bad price ( down from 2.89 a square foot and underlay for $25.00 for 200 sq feet) but we had to buy the whole lot of tile and it was an odd amount..

Next we went to the Kent Building Centre and saw some laminate flooring on for 87 cents a square foot that was nice (and underlay for $20.00 for 200 sq feet).. the guy who waited on us told us that they had some end lots in the back that he could give us a good deal on.. almost the same but a bit darker in color.. a faux oak.. and he said he'd give it to us for 65 cents a square foot .. we said we'd take the 13 boxes they had left, got him to put our name on it to hold it until we could get the trailer to take it home and noticed that there were other boxes laying around of laminate flooring..

Then we went to the Home Depot and checked their stuff out.. they had laminate flooring for 99 cents a square foot and underlay for $29.00 for 200 sq feet... and tile for around 45 cents a square foot but for that you need to buy grout and stuff to stick it down...

So we went home and on the way decided to get enough laminate flooring from Kent to do the bedroom upstairs, the hallway, bathroom, the entryway downstairs, the den and underlay for the whole thing and it only cost us a bit less than $600.00 for the whole thing... and R's going to lay it all down himself and it doesn't need to be glued down or nailed .. I'm very happy with the purchase and it will make a huge difference it the look of the house... will post some before and after pics later..