Doing away with the yucky carpet

After living with it for a couple of years we just couldn't take the carpet anymore. Previous owners had dogs and apparently those dogs were wild, if you know what I mean. The front room in particular got pretty smelly when it warmed up in there and frankly, it was just disgusting to try to vacuum and walk on.

So, out it came, and we vacuumed no end of dirt, sand, dead crickets and cockroaches (the big ones) and had to help a little lizard find his way back outside. Then we had to wash down the floors to try to cut down on the dust from the unfinished concrete. Whew.

When we have time and money and have sufficiently recovered from the other myriad household projects, we will put down a stained overlay with an acid wash finish and seal it. It will be an amber color. It will look verrrry nice. I have a very good imagination.

The plus side is we got to get another of the Persian rugs out of the garage and use it again. Yay!





Looks a little funky with the nice rug and then cracked concrete but we've lived with worse.