Wood is Good

We got lucky--our home was built in a time where people still had real wood floors. Unluckily, it was decorated in a time when people lost all respect for wood floors and covered them with carpet. Our kitchen, hallway, and all three bedrooms have wood flooring, but only the kitchen's survived the Carpet Outbreak of the Last Millennium.

The hallway on the day we moved in.

And underneath! 

In our bedroom we saw the even more heinous sin of covering up the wood floors with STICK ON LINOLEUM. I just couldn't even. It was so bad I lost the ability to even.

We let Sam rip that crap out the first week.

The library room and its carpet used to be separated from the kitchen by this wall, but as you recall, we tore that thing down. We wanted to have less of an abrupt transition between the two rooms, so we took out the carpet in the library. By the way, we're super excited to have a room we can call our library.

The carpet looked okay on top, but when Ryan ripped it out he could see all the old stains from the previous decades on the bottom of the carpet. Apparently it was so bad he almost threw up. So we will also be replacing the carpet in the living room and TV room as soon as we have money for either more wood or nice carpet. Feel free to weigh in down below in the comments. Wood or carpet?

You have to put down special paper before laying the wood flooring. And the pieces just snap together! Amazing!

Our floors are red oak, according to Ryan. They don't look very red, but whatever.

That thing on the floor is a flooring nailer. Ryan borrowed it from our friend Kason, who is remodeling his house as well. He tried to explain how to use it by using a pen and a highlighter to represent the floor boards. You can watch a real video on YouTube if you are interested in learning how they work.

Ta da! The next step is to rent a floor sander to smooth all the floors (and get the GLUE from the LINOLEUM off the bedroom floor) and then stain and protect them.