Bye, Bye, Shag Carpet, Hello Plank Floors

Here, Trent is removing carpet tack in the East bedroom.


After removing the blue shag carpet.


The floors were painted around the perimeter to compliment an area rug. They were shades of blue and red at one point.


The original floors have an incredible quality to them. People pay big money these days to try to reproduce the look and feel of a hand-planed floor, but we've always had them.

Under Foot

In order to access the condition and repair the old wood floors we had to uncover them. This meant rolling up the area rugs and, pulling up carpet, and linoleum.


In the West bedroom, there was a layer of stick-on linoleum squares around the perimeter, a mid-century era layer of linoleum with a wood-look, and then the earliest covering was a burlap type material painted mustard yellow. Here is Betina using a spatula for a tool.


Here you see some insect damage and the area that was replaced with plywood after water damage.


It was very exciting to uncover the original plank pine floors, layed with square blacksmith nails!