{"id":169,"date":"2007-02-10T20:24:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T01:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/10\/the-cork-floor\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:10:12","slug":"the-cork-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/10\/the-cork-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cork Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we went out shopping for a new floor for our basement. First we thought we were going to do carpet, then we decided a wood laminate made more sense, but the flooring we came home with instead was cork<\/a>. Cork seemed to be the perfect choice for our basement as it insulates against both temperature and noise. It’s easy to care for and not too cool to the touch.<\/p>\n

What I really like is that cork is a natural product. The trees are not cut down, only the bark is used. And 9 years later it is ready to be harvested again<\/a> and therefore considered a “green” product. It is also self heaing, much like my cutting mat! It has to sit in our house for a week before it can be put down on the floor. Jim is supposed to be done painting and putting up trim by Tuesday and on Friday my in-laws are flying in from Texas. Perfect timing!<\/p>\n

This whole thing got me thinking how it would make much more sense for my husband to work for a place like Lowes or Home Depot rather than selling womens underwear<\/a>. We need a good discount on building supplies. I mean there are only so many pairs of underwear a girl needs, but the home remodeling projects are endless. Hmmm, must google where the corporate offices are. Hang on.<\/p>\n

Ok it looks like Lowe’s is located outside of Charlotte, North Carolina<\/a>. That would work for me.<\/p>\n

Home Depot is in Atlanta<\/a>. I don’t know much about Atlanta. Probably a little warmer than here.<\/p>\n

Speaking of weather, pack warm, Grandma and Grandad – we are in for a bunch of snow next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we went out shopping for a new floor for our basement. First we thought we were going to do carpet, then we decided a wood laminate made more sense, but the flooring we came home with instead was cork. Cork seemed to be the perfect choice for our basement as it insulates against both temperature and noise. It’s easy to care for and not too cool to the touch. What I really like is that cork is a natural product. The trees are not cut down, only the bark is used. And 9 years later it is ready to be harvested again and therefore considered a “green” product. It is also self heaing, much like my cutting mat! It has to sit in our house for a week before it can be put down on the floor. Jim is supposed to be done painting and putting up trim by Tuesday and on Friday my in-laws are flying in from Texas. Perfect timing! This whole thing got me thinking how it would make much more sense for my husband to work for a place like Lowes or Home Depot rather than selling womens underwear. We need a good discount on building supplies. I mean there are only so many pairs of underwear a girl needs, but the home remodeling projects are endless. Hmmm, must google where the corporate offices are. Hang on. Ok it looks like Lowe’s is located outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. That would work for me. Home Depot is in Atlanta. I don’t know much about Atlanta. Probably a little warmer than here. Speaking of weather, pack warm, Grandma and Grandad – we are in for a bunch of snow next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20897,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/20897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}