The great wood floor unveiling update...

This wood floor update brought to you by Princess-one darn cute kitten in desperate need of a home. If you're interested, we'd be happy to help her relocate to your house ASAP :-). And now, on with the update.


This is just one small sample of the chaos caused by moving ALL your furniture and possessions out of each room as you tear out the carpet. Above are all our school books and below is my "sewing hutch"...both relocated to the middle of the LIVING ROOM now that we are tearing out the dining room carpet.



The GOOD. This is how a large portion of the living room floor looks. For being really old, it looks awfully good.


The BAD. This is the dining room floor. Actually, most of it is in good shape, but for some reason the middle of the floor was not stained??? Nothing makes sense in this house.

The UGLY. Yep, really ugly. "U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi, you UGLY" ugly. For some reason, smack dab between the living room and the dining room is this 2 foot by 3+ foot spot of sheer ugliness. That will be fun to fix!

So that's why you haven't been hearing much from me on my blog. Removing the carpet and the padding is the easy part. Then there's removing the tack strips, the staples (they hold the padding down), old nails that are sticking out, sweeping the floor, vacuuming the floor, and then mopping the floor BY HAND. Oh, and life. But besides that, I'm eating bon-bons, LOL. Actually, I'm thrilled that the carpet is gone in the rooms we've done, so I'm not complaining.