Slow slow progress
So, we are now officially working on the house. We had a guy come over
tonight after work to look at the floors and will have another one come
by later in the week. I cleaned a whole 3 cupboards before we left.
Progress is slow. Slower than my Baba crossing the road (Love you
Baba!)
We finally ripped out the god aweful red carpet in the main bedroom. I almost cried. The house was built in the 1950's and has oak floors throughout. When we saw the house we saw carpet in the hallway and this ugly blood red bordello carpet in the main bedroom. I saw that there were hard wood floors so I wanted to let them shine through. Well, after moving the carpet out we saw stains on the wood. As if someone spilt a drink or someone's blood in areas and thought "Hey, lets cover this mess up with this wonderful carpet! No one will ever look below to see the mess that we created!"
The guy said that most of it should be ok, but the major discolouration around the windows and walls (Think someone left the windows open and then sprayed the water hose in just for fun) may not be perfect. Hubby and I were thinking about it and ya know, we don't want perfect. Honestly, we don't. We just want something nice and those stains can be covered up with furniture. It's just a bloody shame that we saw that. It's aweful that we own it!!!
Tomorrow I'm planning on finishing washing the cupboards and then maybe start on the bathroom (it's small so that's a blessing.) We found out today that our stove in there is broken. I put in some salmon steaks that I picked up on my way there this evening and we had them in there for about an hour and they were barely warm. Sigh. What else can go wrong??? Oh shit. I shouldn't say that. Damn I did. I'm going to go hide under the bed till after Yule. See ya!
We finally ripped out the god aweful red carpet in the main bedroom. I almost cried. The house was built in the 1950's and has oak floors throughout. When we saw the house we saw carpet in the hallway and this ugly blood red bordello carpet in the main bedroom. I saw that there were hard wood floors so I wanted to let them shine through. Well, after moving the carpet out we saw stains on the wood. As if someone spilt a drink or someone's blood in areas and thought "Hey, lets cover this mess up with this wonderful carpet! No one will ever look below to see the mess that we created!"
The guy said that most of it should be ok, but the major discolouration around the windows and walls (Think someone left the windows open and then sprayed the water hose in just for fun) may not be perfect. Hubby and I were thinking about it and ya know, we don't want perfect. Honestly, we don't. We just want something nice and those stains can be covered up with furniture. It's just a bloody shame that we saw that. It's aweful that we own it!!!
Tomorrow I'm planning on finishing washing the cupboards and then maybe start on the bathroom (it's small so that's a blessing.) We found out today that our stove in there is broken. I put in some salmon steaks that I picked up on my way there this evening and we had them in there for about an hour and they were barely warm. Sigh. What else can go wrong??? Oh shit. I shouldn't say that. Damn I did. I'm going to go hide under the bed till after Yule. See ya!