The house had a very heavy stale cigarette smell that permeated the entire house. It was awful, because it was so strong! The walls were yellow, probably from all the tar from the cigarette smoke. Rumor has it the previous occupants and the prior owner smoked "like freight trains." It was quite obvious as you walked through the house.
Step 1: Get rid of the cigarette smell!
We started by ripping up all of the carpet inside the house, which required scraping the pad off the floors at times. Gross. The amount of dirt that came out of the carpet was disturbing. There were even holes in the carpet in places. It was disgusting. We wore gloves as we pulled the carpet out of the house, but so many of them ripped we finally just gave up and washed our hands thoroughly when we were finished!
I already knew there was hardwood flooring under the carpet, but I wasn't sure what the condition of the hardwood was until I pulled up the carpet.
There was paint all over the hardwood floors! It was heartbreaking to see the way the hardwood was treated before it was unceremoniously covered up with nasty brown carpet. We wonder if they had a bonfire in the middle of the living room, or if they just decided to spray paint furniture on top of the hardwood floors?
There were even rooms painted several colors!
And the person who installed the carpet deserved to have his or her staple gun taken away! My parents and I pulled out what could only have been thousands of staples!
But with a LOT of sandpaper, some elbow grease, and unwavering determination, we uncovered this under the layers of paint and varnish that covered my floors...
All I had to say... OH. MY. GOD.
After 3 layers of polyurethane, this is what we had...
Just looking at those floors makes me giddy... they are absolutely breathtaking, and look fabulous with everything! However, they weren't the only work that had to be done in the house. Step 2... painting...
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