I have so much I should be doing. Could be doing. My to-do list is a mile long.
So today? I started to tear out the carpet on our steps. Which is, technically speaking, on my list. But it's a little further down than some of the other, more immediate stuff.
Yet I'm glad I started it. We live in this 100-plus-year-old house with a beautiful oak staircase. And someone, in around 1985, decided that a runner of ordinary taupe carpet would appropriately accent this staircase? Try fast-forwarding 20 years. The carpet is so ordinary, so dated. And filthy - stained (who has taupe carpet in a house with kids and pets?) and dusty beyond dusty - I'm sure it was anyway, and we've been tearing out plaster and putting in drywall.
Yuck.
Oh - and people who install carpet over hardwood floors or stairs should have to do hard time. Pulling out all those little staples and tacks is a bitch. And my pry bar mars or gouges the floors on occasion.
My kitchen counter tops were installed yesterday. When (if?) all the little details get dealt with, I'll post photos. I should snap a photo of the awful carpet (I only got two-thirds of the way up; the steps turn so that's where I quit).
The electricians were supposed to come when they got rained out this week. They've never made it - is someone trying to tell me they didn't get rained out? I am finding that hard to believe.
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I agree that people who install carpet over hardwoods should do hard time. Or have to hand sand, fill and stain the holes. We have a "lovely" green carpet over our parquet floors in the living room/bar area. We've heard some of the floor in the bar is water damaged which is the only reason we're not yanking this crap up right now. It pains me to think of the holes in our otherwise perfect floor. Someday we'll have this place restored to it's original glory. In the meantime, I feel your pain!
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