DIY - Install Paper Flooring?!?!

I was talking with my son-in-law on the phone, whom I LOVE, and was "Stumbling" while talking....and up came this very surprising and super economic way of putting down durable flooring in your home!!  I could hardly believe what I was seeing in this video, but thought it was way cool!  Not sure just where I'd use it, but let's see what you think!:

Do-It-Yourself Alternative To Hard Wood Floors - An Oregon Cottage


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvR2pfSdrmw

Want to rip out your ugly carpet but don't have the money to put in hardwood flooring? Using this simple DIY technique, you can give your floor a faux leather look...

Workbench and dogdoor problem solved!

We have a small dog and cat, and of course, a little door for them, leading onto our back porch.  We also had a huge problem, as the wind blows from that dirction often, bringing lots of cold air, dirt, leaves, etc., into the dogdoor.  The flap broke off, and attempts to rig up a flap that worked failed.  Enter:  my genious husband again!!!  Here is what he did....let's see if you can figure out what happened here....no looking ahead!

"something dumb this-way-comes!!"

Well?!  Didja?!?  Figure it out, I mean?!  See that place where one of the planks does not extend to the ground, just off of the deck?  THAT is the new entryway into the dogdoor area!!  They go under there, jump up onto the deck, and come in their door, which is now protected behind/under this wonderful workbench!!!!  You have to admit that this is GENIOUS!!  Eventually, we will probably build new steps with a bigger platform, so that you can stand on a level withthe workbench all the way down (on the right), and then descend the steps.  Yes, we will have to leave room under the steps for the animals to get through.  :)

trash corral

Now for the other backyard projects we've been doing!  We've made a trash corral, using a structure we already had for the base of it (not sure what the original use of that structure was....we got it from a deserted storage unit), and added some fence planking to "hide" the cans and make it look purty!  This is the side you can see from the house and backyard.  Beyond it, are the woodpile, and some of our field.

Now our cans are "corraled" so that the wind can't blow them around!  Yay!!

Treehouse!

And now.....the reason I have been absent from here for awhile......We have been SO BUSY, building the most wonderful TREEHOUSE!!!  My husband is a genious kind of guy, who thinks up all these things to do right out of his head....truly creative!  The platform is 14 feet up off of the ground!  Here's some pics:

silly helper!

under construction

my genious at work!

finally finished, with platform, house, and walled rails!

Sonnet cleaning her house!!

We worked SO HARD on this for days and days in temps reaching 104 degrees sometimes!  But we had a blast, drank lots of lemonaide, and learned a lot!