Sunday, December 30, 2012


Today we got started with ripping out the carpet. There is a lot of of it! Fortunately for us there is beautiful hardwood (we believe original) underneath the carpet. We had previously pulled up a couple of corners and thought the wood would be in decent shape and today we discovered we were correct! Danny did all the carpet removal and haul away, along with my dad and then Danny, his sister, myself and my dad worked on pulling up all the staples from the carpet padding (there were A LOT). We will be having our floor guy come out this week to remove the tack strips and then he will be back in a few weeks to work on the floors. We will need to discuss with him whether the floors require a full refinish or just a buff and recoat once he sees their full condition, but based on our original conversation he thought they were in great shape and didn't need to be fully refinished which is great!
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Den/4th bedroom before

No more shelves

Den After

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Connor's Room - before

Connor's room - after



Posted by Alexandra at 7:44 PM

2 comments:

  1. DianeJanuary 10, 2013 at 1:34 PM

    Why would anyone cover up that pretty wood?! Looking great!!!

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  2. AlexandraJanuary 12, 2013 at 12:28 PM

    Thank goodness they did because otherwise it may not be in such great shape today! Sign of the times though I suppose. I think wall-to-wall carpet was "the thing" in the early 90s! Maybe in 30 years our kids will be saying "why would they want to walk around on all that wood", ha!

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