Most of the house has wall-to-wall carpeting. It's nice enough but not our favorite color. And it's badly stained in a few places, which is not surprising considering the house was housing restaurants for many years.
Still, we hoped against hope that maybe, if the Victorian gods were smiling upon us, that there might be hardwood floors underneath all the carpet.
Today we found out.
We peeled up a corner of one bedroom carpet and... hardwood!
It's very paint-splattered, as you can see. Some Philistine evidently rolled light green paint on the walls and cared nothing for splattering it all over the floor, too. I scratched away a small patch of the paint (see photo) just to be certain and, sure enough, there's good-quality wood under there.
Woo-hoo! Now we merely have to peel up all the carpet, dispose of it, remove the carpet padding, dispose of that, tear up the tack strips, pull out several thousands staples, clean off every last spot of paint, polish and oil the floor...
Piece of cake.
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