Rear Renovation Flooring Project (Before & Current)

This the rear mother-in-law unit on our property. It's roughly 660 SQFT. For many years it's had carpet and a wooded square hearth around the fireplace. This Year I'm changing that. I'm really excited about updating this space to something more functional and modern, by tearing out the old materials and installing new ones. I have some creative ideas in mind for the transition of the fireplace hearth into the flooring. After installing new flooring and tile in our front house and seeing how easy it was to do, I want to incorporate these materials and ideas into this rear renovation. 

                                                          Before                &                  Currently

I started by removing the wooded fireplace hearth and exposing the cement subfloor. I used my Dremel Multi-max tool to remove any leftover adhesive stuck to the cement subfloor. 

Then I cut the carpet with a utility knife in long manageable strips, then rolled them up and taped them tight with duct tape. I repeated that process with the underlayment. This made it easier to dispose of them. 

Before picture of kitchen area

On the other side of the room is a small kitchen and bar. I started by removing the large appliances from this space and moving the bar and bar stools out of the way. 

I then I cut back the linoleum that was in the kitchen area, because the linoleum was so old the paper backing separated and stuck to the concert subfloor. I used a scraper to remove as much as possible and cleaned everything up using my shop vac. 

I picked out some flooring samples from Home Depot and laid them out in the natural lighting on the subfloors to see which ones best fit the space.

Here is my mood board & concept sketch of what I'm planning on accomplishing

My vision is to use 8" white hexagon floor tiles around the fireplace hearth floor area and continue the tiles on the rear back corner walls about 3' up the wall. (See concept sketch)

I'm pulling this inspiration from our kitchen tile backsplash project. 

We created a hexagon backsplash with a waterfall corner edge in our front house.  It was really easy to do and had a great visual impact.

All the materials I plan to use are from Home Depot. I've researched the materials and current cost (pre-tax) that I think I will need to complete this project. Here they are:

256 square feet for moulding

32 boards =$320.64

I did some research and found this Youtube video covered exactly what I plan to do. This is the tutorial on how to install a tile transition to vinyl click and lock plank flooring.