The house.
It's all this is about because it's all we do, think about, work on...
When we got home from Wisconsin and Illinois last Monday, I went immediately to work the next day on an ag trip and Todd went to work ripping up carpet!
When I came home that night there were beautiful hardwood floors gleaming at me from the upstairs guest room. I was ECSTATIC! Every square inch of this place is carpeted - minus the laundry room (yes, kitchen and bathrooms are covered too!) - and it just feels so heavy and outdated.
The next night we tackled the upstairs master. Only we took it a step further and decided to see what was hiding under the fake ceiling - you know, the kind made of cream colored tiles with gold glitter swirls through them? We've temporarily shut the door on that room and have moved on until we can figure out the giant crack in the ceiling...
But, the real carpet kicker has been the dining room. We have big area rugs for both the dining and living rooms which we've laid down to get out of the way. But they've only gotten IN the way. The dining room rug did nothing but get stuck to the carpet and bunch up around the table and chairs. That, combined with our four old chairs, six new (old) chairs from Todd's mom's, every possible piece of paper, keys, and electronic cord we own tossed in, created a horrible chaos that made Todd and I want to scream.
So, last night, we tackled the dining room.
Here's a before. That clean rectangle? That's where the rug was. All the disgustingness around it is from tracking in and Rigby shedding his winter coat over everything. We haven't bothered to vacuum, not even once, because we knew we'd be pulling the carpet out...
Another before from a different angle...
Pulling back the carpet. I shudder to think what's living in the mat...
The moment, instant, Todd pulled back that giant chunk of dirty mat I felt me - and the house - take a big breath. It's like you could feel the house breathing after being trapped beneath nasty carpet for all those years...
And get a load of this photo! Doesn't it look like a glamorous ballroom? Minus, of course, the window fan and tools on the window sill...
There are some issues that need addressed. Like this...
And this...
And the approximately 135 holes left from the 135 screws Todd pulled out of the dining and entry way floors. There are still nails in there, but we're going to talk to a professional about all that...
It's definitely fun planning how it's going to ultimately look, but we've still got a long way to go!
2 comments:
We have hard wood in our dining room and it looks the same against the wall and under the trim as yours. Plus our carpet in our living room covers true wood floors also, but that room is so cold in the winter and lives above the garage so I'm afraid to take the carpet out of there because it will make it 10 degrees colder in that room without the carpet to buffer some of the cold. We have to fix the garage insulation before we could make the living room it's natural hard wood beauty.
Looks great!
You guys have SO! MUCH! ENERGY!
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