Countertops and Floors, oh my!

Today, the renos continued. I worked on the floor, and he did the countertop. He had a really hard time with the countertop. We had to cut 3 pieces to fit together in an alcove type area where the walls are not straight. He fussed and farted around with it all day, but the end result is just wonderful.

Meanwhile, I got to do the flooring. We had started wanting just to do peel-and-stick tiles in the bathroom but we really couldn't find anything that looked nice. And it turns out, that it's not so inexpensive... Over $100 for a small room. At one point, we ended up looking at Tarkett FiberFloor at Home Depot. It's a vinyl floor, but soft and cushiony. And you don't have to glue it down. It's a floating floor, and comes in tile and hardwood styles. It sounded and looked great, until the salesguy at Home Depot told us it would take 5-6 weeks to order. At the end, we ended up at a flooring place, asked them what they had in stock, and they sold us a 12 by 3ft 7 in piece of left over stuff... for $40!!
To install it, I first cut out a template, and layed it out on the deck.

 Picked it up and put it in the bathroom...

 Cut out all the holes, and trimmed it up...

 And then we painted and installed the moldings...

It was all a little harder then it sounds. I ended up having to cut it once, and then doing a lot of trimming after. But the extra time I took measuring and making sure all the cuts were just right paid off. The end result looks great, and I even got the lines all straight!