Flooring...

So, because the time has come to get a door made for the Tiny House, we have to pick out flooring. I know, at first glance that doesn't make much sense, but it turns out that in order to make a door, you need to know how high to make a door, and in order to know how high to make a door you need to know how high off your subfloor your flooring will be, and in order to know that, you need to know what you're using for flooring.

We investigated several different options, and it really came down to Cork vs Bamboo. In the end we decided to go with engineered bamboo because it was a) much cheaper than cork and b) deals with changes in humidity and wet locations better than most cork options (and pretty much all the semi-affordable options). Dealing well with changes in humidity was a really important factor to us because we'd like to use one flooring throughout the house which means that we'll be using it in the bathroom. That may not work out, but we figure that if things start to go south we can always put a vinyl flooring on top of the existing wood flooring in the bathroom (which is only like 10 square feet anyway), so even if we have to tear it out it'd be worth it to give it a shot. In the living room, we'll have the opposite concern: heating the tiny house with a woodstove in the winter can really dry wood out, so having the engineered stuff will definitely help there as well.

Here's a photo of the bamboo we've temporarily settled on. It's actually a lot less red in person (looking more yellow than anything else). It also has the most phenomenal texture- which I think is maybe the real reason why I wanted it.

And for tone comparison, here's a quick shot I took at Home Depot.