progress in the basement: laying laminate over vinyl flooring

we bought laminate flooring for the basement waaaaaaaaay way way long ago -- even before we bought the vinyl flooring for the laundry room! it was something fish wanted to get done asap, but other projects kept taking precedence: yardwork, the deteriorating window header, the dining room table...not to mention fish's full-time job.
when we bought the laminate, we tried to match it as close as possible to the red oak hardwood in the rest of our house:

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