I had the most wonderful “homeowner” moment today -
As many of you know (my peeps) – my front room is covered in lovely decades-old linoleum glue spots – it’s going to be ALL the rage soon, and you will ALL want it – I’m starting a trend….I hate carpet, and have been removing it little by little over the last 3 years – WELL, today I was just sitting on the floor, picking off chunks of lineoleum glue spots, (what, me? no social life?) when I pulled back the edge of the carpet to my dining room, and found WHITE PAINTED HARD WOOD FLOOR!!! I screamed with delight at my find! No lineoleum! No glue! I was so so happy! Even though the rest of the family was getting ready to go out shopping and to dinner, I said “wait! let’s take a vote! shopping or we tear this carpet out right now!!” all the girls voted “tear out the carpet!!” all the boys rolled their eyes…
my girls and i and the reluctant boy tore that ugly disgusting stained carpet out, and discovered a perfectly painted white floor underneath – the only nicks were made when we (and when i say “we” i mean Jim) tore out those horrific tack strips they NAILED to my beautiful hardwood floors. i must admit i always cringe when i see them paint a hardwood floor on one of the MANY shows i watch on remodeling, but i think the realization that there was no lineoleum glued down made them much more appealing to me. in fact, i think i just might paint the girls’ bedroom floor too – i could actually attempt a pattern on it – something girly perhaps. this is a big house, and maybe i need some painted floors to break up the monotony of EVERY floor being stained hardwood…besides, painted floors need to just be stripped and sanded and stained to bring them back to life. (that’s all, just stripped and sanded and stained – LOL)
Also, I found a little iron table and two chairs for $20 at a flea market – needs a little work, but will be pretty in a corner of my back yard when restored. I’m so so excited! I’m finally loving my house, it took long enough!
