New floors!!

by Granny Girl

I have been living with bare concrete floors for months. My grandson and I pulled up the carpet in the living room and all but one bedroom because it was unbearably stained and full of dog hair. It was stinky. The concrete smelled better and was sweepable, but it was not pretty and it was really hard. Concrete dust filtered through the house, landing on every surface. Still better than carpet, but certainly not optimal.

I started praying for new floors. Specifically, vinyl plank floors. I had researched and found that these floors were indestructible. (Indestructible is my decorating style.) One day my sister called me and told me she had heard on the radio that Ideal Floors was giving away flooring. She said to go to their website and apply. My immediate thought was that this was God answering my prayer. (spoiler alert: He was!) I opened their page titled "Ideal Gives Back" and saw the question "How can we be a blessing to you?" Just reading that was a blessing! How many companies put something like that on their website? The application page said "tell us your story." I told them about the major changes that had happened in my life in the last couple of years, how I'm a single grandma caring for my grandson and that I had recently lost my job. I told them that while I was perfectly content with the concrete, new floors would be a huge blessing. A fantastic lady from Ideal Floors, Joan Davis, called me and said she was going to come out and measure my house for flooring!! She came the next day to measure and told me I could pick out enough cheap flooring to cover the living room, hall and bedrooms, or I could go a step up and get enough for just the living room and hallway. She mentioned carpet, but I asked if I could get something sweepable. She said, "What about vinyl plank?" Bam! God answered my prayer! I also made a friend for life in Joan. She's a dear lady and the more we talked, the more we saw how we had led somewhat parallel lives. She told me she prays over all the applications so the floors will go to whomever God wants them to go. And she told me that the owner of the company had started giving away flooring some time ago. God told him he needed to give more. Now he gives up to $1500 worth of new floors to ten people every month! What a guy!

The installers came two days ago. They worked for about 10 hours and got the job done. The floors are absolutely amazing! 

Living room before

Living room after

 Hallway before

Hallway after