.... and here's a picture of the Wong family room AFTER we were all finished. Tin Nguyen and I took about 3 overall days of work to get this done (which we did mostly on evenings and weekends). I did most of the floors, while Tin did all the baseboard trim and the difficult step (it's a sunken family room).
The TV stand is the only piece of furniture that was purchased, and it fits right into the space next to the fireplace.
Again, the floors are Wilsonart brand and were pretty easy to work with. I don't think we wasted a single piece due to cracking or a defect (usually, I get a few pieces that just don't fit correctly, and a couple more that crack under the pressure of the hammer). And even with 3 dogs running on them all day long, I haven't seen a single scratch.
The hardest part of the room actually had nothing to do with flooring. It was trying to hide ALL the wires that come out of that little corner.
The total cost of upgrading this room from carpet to laminate wood flooring was well under $1,000 (maybe even under $900). It's an average sized room at about 300 square feet (about 15 feet by 20 feet), but this was the more expensive laminate wood floor ($2.54 per square foot) and to top it off, buying the matching baseboard trim was more expensive than buying generic stuff.
If we had gone with a cheaper laminate floor and baseboard trim, this remodel would easily be under $500 in the end. However, it was very important to match the kitchen and entry areas that had already been done in Wilsonart.
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