We've been itching to tear something out and decided on an easy project. There is this plush and disgusting trail of carpet leading from the front door, through the hallway, down the back steps to the back door that continues down to the basement. Note the scalloped edging...classy. We took a peak when we were first viewing the house and decided that it was subfloor underneath:( We resigned ourselves to having to live with bare, scalloped edge plywood floors (maybe we'd paint them?) until we were ready to redo the floors on the whole main level. However, when we peeled back the layer of underpadding (equally disgusting) there was oak strip flooring underneath! We discovered and removed vinyl tile that was hiding under the carpet in the foyer and vintage marmoleum in a lovely speckled brown/teal/pink melange that was under the carpet at the back door. We thought we'd save the marmoleum for a while..it's almost retro enough to be cool, but crow-barring the tack strips ruined it...so it left as well. The only bit of carpet left is in decent shape and is in the rec. room. It will stay until we renovate that room. The house suddenly smells better....
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