[Yorkiemom1]

I can count on one hand truely regrettable decisions I have made in my adult life....putting laminate flooring (top of the line, best you can get!!) down in my sun room, my kitchen and my formal dining room. I absolutely threw away over $6000.00 for this crap! It is gorgeous, cherry wood color....and every single tiny little foot print shows up when the pups walk across the floor! OMG!!! When they come in from the yard, I just sit and cry!!! MY foot prints show up, walking across the floor! I love shiny floors....these floors streak and I abhore them!! When I can "let it go" and "get over" throwing away all that money, I am going to pull this crap up and have some kind of "laminate vinyl flooring" with a stone pattern, that is completely dog friendly, maintains its waxed, shiny look, mops clean with a wet mop and some Armstrong Floor Shine cleaner.

Now my cousin has a type of wood floor that I really love, but I didnt have the $$$$ for THAT stuff, and I was afraid with the dogs. Her floors are stunning. She has "Relics Collection, Petina floors, which is a real wood that is sealed/coated with porcelin coating...."wear max advanced ceramic finish."

I had all my carpet pulled up throughout the house, and in the rest of my home, I did the glazed concrete....it is cool all year long, shines like glass, and mops clean with a wet mop! Problem? You drop anything glass on it and it breaks to smitherines!! I didnt want tile because of settling in the house over time, the tile cracks. I adore my concrete glazed floors....it looks like large slate tile squares....I wish I had done that instead of this dad gum laminate crap in the other half of the house. The laminate was over $6000.00 for about 1200 sq feet.....the finished, glazed design concrete was about $4000.00 for almost 1800 sq feet.