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Booyah!

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The view from the doorway.  Still some cleaning and straightening to do, obviously, and the books need to go back on the shelves, but:

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There is a cat in this picture, by the way:

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So that’s that, for now.  There was some fun with archaeology the way there always is when you do any kind of renovation in an old house, as the little nook in the back appears to have had some built-in architecture removed at some point– there were tack strips nailed down across the middle of the floor and some weird traces of paint and one bit of wall with missing baseboards.  The floor is otherwise undamaged, though, and as you can see it looks great.

Oh, and we just pulled up a corner of the carpet in our perfect rectangle dining room to reveal ordinary subflooring underneath, and I said the words “This would be the easiest hardwood flooring job ever, if we wanted to try it.”  I don’t know why I said those words.

I HATE YOU PINK CARPET

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But this is the last piece.

Making progress

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I’m over halfway done, I’d say– there is no carpet under or behind the bed, which is a king-size and by far the most unwieldy piece of furniture in the room. Should be able to finish the job tomorrow.

Now I get to go to OtherJob from five to eleven.  Whee!

AFTER

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This was the test patch to make sure the floor was what we thought it was.  Guess what I’m doing this weekend?

In which I do something right the first time

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photoWas planning on heading into school today again, but last night we finally got sick of the carpet in the hallway and ripped the shit out.  When we first bought the place a friend who lives down the street came over and commented that she’d had the same carpet in her place when they moved in and we were going to hate it.  Man, she couldn’t have been more right.  I’m generally a fan of carpet over hardwood (and this hallway, which bends off to the left at the top of the picture, will eventually have two runners in it) but this shit looked muddy and disgusting within just a couple of weeks of us moving in.  And this isn’t even one of the dog zones in the house; they don’t spend a lot of time in this part of the house and we’re generally not wearing shoes when walking through this hallway either.  But the carpet looked filthy nonetheless.

There was already hardwood in my office and the boy’s room; our room is carpeted, but with a different kind of carpet than what was in the living room and hallway (and, for that matter the dining room) and it’s in much better shape, so we’re going to keep it.  We pulled up the carpet and the padding last night and I spent about an hour and a half this morning ripping tack strips out from by the walls; a bit of consultation with the Internet and Facebook sent me off to buy a couple of prybars this morning that worked wonderfully.  We just need to buy and install a few guards for where the hardwood meets the carpet in the bedroom, the tile in the entryway, and the linoleum in the bathroom.  I was worried that the hardwood was going to be all stained and nasty, but other than a little bit along the wall (look to the left of the vacuum cleaner) that I’m hoping will come up, it looks as good as the flooring in the bedrooms.  Not bad for an hour and a half of work.

Getting some control over the ten thousand different kinds of flooring in this house is becoming more and more necessary.  🙂