A Flooring Option

I am a floundering at going green in my house.  I'm no where near where I want to be but I know that slowly but surely I will get there.  So, in my quest to go green I have been doing research on green flooring options.  I hate carpet.  I have always hated carpet and when we moved into our house I compromised with my husband on carpet.  After almost 5 years in the house he has converted to the no carpet land I want to live in.  

Now, given the economical times we live in replacing our carpet with tile or bamboo is not in the budget and won't be for some time.  About a month ago I decided that the family room carpet had to go.  It was so awful! In my desperation I decided to just rip up the carpet and we would live on the cement until another option was affordable.  In doing some research I found that this is a wonderful green option.   I planned for this to occur over my husbands spring break. So, last week we went to work and I'm so happy with the results that we just may tackle the bedrooms as well.  Below are our results.

Ripping up carpet is not historically a fun job.  But because of the goal that we were working toward it was fun.  An extra bonus....ripping up carpet can actually be quite a good frustration release! :-)

Now, the cement floor doesn't look so great once everything is ripped up.  We went to work cleaning the floor and once that was dry added 2 coats of cement paint.  Now, the cement paint is quite stinky but it dried beautifully!

Once it was dried we moved in the furniture. We decided to move the family room and make this room a dining room.  Now we still have some work to do like putting the chair covers on, getting pictures up, and moving in my desk belongings but I couldn't be happier with the result.

Here is another view!  Some other thoughts that I have on this choice.  It will be cleaner, easier to clean and lower on allergens.  Like I said, I am so happy with the result that I think we will tackle the bedrooms as well.  I know that if we ever have to move we will have to put something in since not everyone will see my vision, but for now this is a wonderful choice and I'm so glad that we did it.