Yesterday we began removing the carpeting from our bedroom. It is the last room to have the nasty old carpet in it. The rest of the house has hardwood floors which were in relatively good condition when we took out the carpet. Sad to say the wood floor in our bedroom is not in as great shape.
Someone should be prosecuted for what they did to this floor. Evidently, a previous owner painted the room when they had taken up one carpet, and before laying the present carpet. They treated that beautiful red oak hardwood floor like a cheap drop cloth. There's tons of overspray paint and big white foot prints where someone had stepped in paint and then on the floor. I'm working on getting it up which is a bit tedious and requiring some elbow grease but I can't help wondering just how far someone's head was up their posterior.
When we had the floors refinished in the entry and hallway last year, the guy who did it for us was exclaiming the quality of the wood, they just don't make it this good anymore, etc. Even if one wanted carpet at the time, why not take care with what is underneath when it is of such quality?? And if you are replacing carpet, why not leave that down while painting?? IDIOTS!
But I'm not bitter.
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Hannah Brodie
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2 comments:
In our little bungalow here in Albany, we, too, have lovely oak floors that we had redone last year. We discovered that the entire house, including the kitchen has the same beautiful wood. Now that it is fashionable (and possible with acrylic finishes) to have wood floors in kitchens, we looked into this as a possibility. C'est la vie, the linoleum is glued down with a black paste that would be way to hard and expensive to remove. The linoleum was so old and ugly (brown and orange gridded flower business from the 70's) that we just deck painted it with a warm grey until we can afford to replace it. Worked amazingly well for a quick and dirty fix.
Yes, Jenny gets the credit for discovering the wood floors under her carpet in her bedroom. Kudos to Princess Jenny. ;-)
Scott, that sounds like a very creative solution on your kitchen flooring. You can paint over hideous linoleum?? I never knew that. In our entryway, we had some diagonally applied paneling made of thin pieces of "natural" wood strips which was very popular in the 70's but so outdated now. When we pulled them off the wall—I should say scraped by bits and pieces— we found they were glued on with something like contact cement. It would have been a monumental task to remove all the bits of wood and all of the glue and prepare the wall for paint so we covered it up with a sheet of cheap paneling and painted over it. Gives the wall some texture and blends in well with the adjacent walls. We were really happy with that creative solution.
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