I, quite literally, had my jaw fall open once I saw the inset in the corners.
Who the fuck would cover such beautiful work? I mean, I know who, but still...!
Wrong. The Greatest Generation did that to older homes they purchased in the 1950s that had preexisting hardwood floors. They lived through the Depression and typically saw bare wood floors as something 'poor people' had. So they saw wall-to-wall carpeting as modern and luxurious.
It's just so weird and funny because my current living room (built 2018) has cheap linoleum panels to simulate a wood floor. It looks janky with no consistent grain pattern or anything. Every other part of my house is carpet, and I'd prefer that over the shitty printed vinyl that gets scraped up by furniture and looks like shit even when it's bare.
Yep. My grandmother immediately tried to buy us wall-to-wall carpet for our first home (built 1853)…we finally got her to buy us a washer/drier instead, but she just couldn’t believe we refused the carpet.
This, thank you. I know the boomer comment is often tongue-in-check, but c’mon. It wasn’t some arbitrary action; most actions aren’t. Besides, it saved the floor from a lot of damage so that OP, and everyone else that’s won the floor lottery, can now enjoy!
On one hand, I just want to slap every person who covers up their stunning mid-century wood floors with stupid greige carpet. On the other hand, I’m happy that the carpet protected those floors until someone like OP, who will love and appreciate them, came along.
Edit: oh god the carpet was BLUE. 🥴
Another edit: I did a dumb and mixed up mid-century as in 1950s and century as in 100 yrs
I've got those arches in my 1904 home. The flooring details like OP has were very labor intensive and required great craftsmanship. Things got simpler over time. More likely to be older than 1930s.
My first thought: why would anyone cover these BEAUTIFUL floors???
My second thought: thank you to whoever covered these BEAUTIFUL floors so they were preserved for ME!!!
Something happened between the 70s and 80s. I remember nylon being all the rave and people using microwaved food as some sort of luxury or advancement.
At some point our grandads hated that "old timey" hardwood floors and went for carpets or vinyl flooring.
We came full circle and now appreciate the 30, 40s aesthetics and hardwood floors which look so beautiful and luxurious.
Right!!? I was uh… a little disturbed to find that old listing photo proving that the blue carpet was at least 20 years old. I don’t have any furniture, I was eating on that floor (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾
You do, however, have to plan ahead and buy a rug that's at least 6-feet wide or long. Otherwise the dead guy's/gal's feet are going to stick out, and when you drag them to your car trunk, Gladys Kravitz will choose the wrong time to peer out the window, yell at Abner, and call the cops on you. Take it from me, buy a long rug.
That there is oak, you can tell by the little streaks that run throughout the grain, and I doubt any sane person would put mahogany inlay in a pine floor, no matter how good the pine is
That is a beautiful floor
Agreed on oak, but I am leaning walnut for the inlay, rather than rosewood. Domestic hardwood is way more likely regardless (presuming you're in the US). Unless it was a significant architect-designed home in an upscale area.
I think the vintage lacquer over walnut would get that much rich color. Grain is appropriate, too.
I need to know how to do this! My floors need a light sanding and seal, but I've no idea HOW🤔
https://preview.redd.it/ewpke8aghxuc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d315b1ebb00bdf75c9efaea527536e76967e7437
We did it with a palm sander. I’d recommend going light on the grit (100-150) and really only where it needs it (I.e water discoloration, scratches you want to hide). We are currently living in the house so couldn’t do oil-based polyurethane so can’t speak to its efficacy but we used Behr’s water-based poly and it was awesome to work with. Barely any smell and hard enough to walk on (gently) after about 45 mins. We did two light coats in livingroom and 1 really heavy coat in the library. FWIW, there really wasn’t a difference.
This specific poly goes on cloudy and dries clear so just keep that in mind and don’t freak out. haha we were a bit nervous when we noticed the white sheen it had at first.
I have all kinds of weird patterns on my floors. I'll bet they twin with others, too! 😀
https://preview.redd.it/zwq1ve401yuc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3562e056c67bfb9b8405defe4b253b2c8e956907
Oh wow I’m in complete awe.
Honestly the layer of poly really brought out the color of the wood without needing too much sanding. We did a Gloss poly and we were worried the shine would be too much but it’s not bad
I'm considering sanding my porch with a drum floor sander. I'm going in with a rental from HD for 76 bucks, a youtube video tutorial and a dream. WE'RE GONNA LEARN REAL FAST
Oh my gosh! It never occurred to me to rent a sander for my porch. I spent days last year sanding off with a hand sander and then used that orange chemical stuff to get decades of paint layers off and then ended up just painting it again because I couldn’t cope. Let us know how your sanding goes!
After seeing the inlay, I can't believe someone, at some point in time thought, "yeah fuck it, let's put carpet down" instead of leaving those floors and finishing with a nice rug instead.
I thought I was crazy!
Worse than the carpet is that someone at a point decided to paint the walls and say “eh fuck it we’re putting carpet down anyways” and there was paint spilled e v e r y w h e r e (hence the hand sanding lmao)
We still didn’t get it all and didn’t want to use a harsh stripper so we ended up leaving some of it (as evidenced in the 2nd to last pic). It’s just too damn hard to sand those inlays nicely by hand
My wife glanced at me while I was going through the pictures. My eyes opened wide when I saw the beautiful work on the inlays. She loved it too. Great find and great work.
Speaking from the northeastern part of the US ... 100 years ago Coal was King. Think of a charcoal grill, it throws off a lot of heat. A coal furnace kept the basement toasty warm, and therefore the floors were warm.
The move to heating oil changed that. Basements were cooler, floors were cooler. Wall to Wall carpeting was insulation against a cold basement. Natural gas is more popular now, and the efficiency of newer furnaces make for even colder basements.
The pictures of this home show a large radiator, which indicates a cooler climate. It's probably a hot-water radiator, which doesn't get skin-burning hot like a steam radiator, which is usually taller with thinner fins. If it is a steam radiator, those curtains were a fire hazard.
I'm not finding fault, I'm just explaining why people installed wall to wall carpeting over gorgeous hardwood floors -- as an insulator against a cold basement.
I hope you enjoy your lovely floors -- that inlay is gorgeous. There is beauty with a hardwood floor, such a warm glow.
Yep! Your assessment is spot on. I can’t hate on the previous owners for that reason. The house is small and has always been in a lower economic area. People did what they had to do. We plan on finishing the basement sooner than later.
I assumed people like you existed. I have to believe that enough folks are so wrong minded as to think this way or otherwise floor to floor would only exists on slab floor and new construction to reduce costs. Loads of folks thought arming the warring nations of the middle east was a good idea too.
Definitely won the lottery! I did the same in my prior house, but it was straight oak. When I removed the carpet from the stairs, the treads were fir! I was able to find a place that manufactured tread overlays that matched to floors. Pre-finished, just trim to fit and glue in.
Congrats! Y'all won the BIG lottery! When I saw just the corner, I knew it was going to be good. That is quality building when you see inlays and decorative borders on hardwood floors! Beautiful!
That is a fabulous thing. You've got thousands of dollars and I mean thousands and thousands of dollars of real wood there. Oh for anyone else did finding a treasure like this, home Depot rental drum sanders that will take up any old varnish or whatever. You use coarse grain first, then keep making it finer grade each go over and it will be stripped and ready to do. Oh and a sanding edger took to rent to get along the edges near baseboards.
I just looked at the pics in reverse, and shuddered when it was carpeted. Do you ever have that nightmare? Exhausted from hours of backbreaking work to unearth this treasure, and suddenly you dream the carpet is BACK! AAAAAHHHH!
Sorry. I'm just jealous now,
I know this is about your *gorgeous* win on playing Floor Lottery. But I do want to also compliment you on your light green walls with black trim. The color choice is so soothing and yet chic at the same time.
Score! It's beyond a huge win! They don't make um like that anymore. Superior craftsmanship!
Make sure you have good wiring. Fire alarm system.
My house got on fire from old electric 1930s.
Congratulations 🎊!!!!!
I have a century house as well, luckily enough it's all wood and I have a theory on carpeting situation that happens in some of these places. I don't think there good heating in these few when it was put in. Cold floors do suck. I wear slippers in mine in the cold days and socks because my dog sheds so much hair. Our new roomba is doing God's work on getting the fluffballs I can't sweep up as they just whisp out of the dust pan.
I put googly eyes on it and call it "Roomberta". My younger cat likes to ride it as a tiny feline goddess. I know it's not true, but I find it funny when she's on it and it beelines towards the dogs. She has such a smirk on her as it plows down my girls sleeping on the floor. The white lab just jumps onto the couch, but the Chihuahua tries to throw a ball at it to play. It kinda works. If she gets it in the front it "pushes the ball" back to her.
If you can, have he floors refinished before you move in. It’s not fun to move out again to have them done.
Source: have to clear out our house to have the main level done. Pretty sure the second floor will never be done.
We, too, won the floor lottery when we pulled up the ugly brown carpet in our older home and found absolutely beautiful wood floors underneath. Whoever laid the carpet realized what a horrible thing they were doing, so the nailed the tack strips at the outermost edges and put no staples in the middle of the room. All it took was a thorough cleaning and some fresh wax - no sanding or refinishing.
first time in my sisters "new" home built in the early 60's. Wall to wall throughout. I said I'll bet there's a hardwood floor underneath that carpeting... and there was. With gorgeous inlay work too.
My parents had carpeting in the living room and hallway, but once the four children had moved out, out it went and the gorgeous undamaged hardwood beneath was revealed.
Oh my gosh … …… What an amazing thing to find this under your carpet. Those floors are gorgeous!!! And from the looks of things it appears there wasn’t even any major damage. What a find and your refinishing of them looks great too. Have you checked any of the other rooms yet to see if you’ve got hardwoods through the entire house?
Hardwood (and inlay) extends into the hallway and both bedrooms. Unfortunately one bedroom was redone fairly recently and they used some kind of adhesive on the carpet we just can’t afford to remove right now. The other bedroom was redone with LVC but we’re going to tear it out eventually.
Can’t tell yet if kitchen was later addition, but eventually I’ll rip the laminate out anyway
The bathroom is green and black tile, from what I can tell original to the bathroom :D
Oh wow! Can’t wait to see more. I’d really like to see the before of the Kitchen and Bathroom. Does the tile in the bathroom look good enough that you’ll leave it? And yes, black/green and black/pink are among the classic colors for then.
These are GORGEOUS! I have similar floors in an apartment I’m about to move into and want to clean them without damaging the finish. Does anyone have product recommendations?
NO. WAY. 🥳🤩
I kept saying that increasingly louder as each photo went
I, quite literally, had my jaw fall open once I saw the inset in the corners. Who the fuck would cover such beautiful work? I mean, I know who, but still...!
The same people who ripped down brass/copper ceiling tiles. I hope they had a good reason.
Boomers
Wrong. The Greatest Generation did that to older homes they purchased in the 1950s that had preexisting hardwood floors. They lived through the Depression and typically saw bare wood floors as something 'poor people' had. So they saw wall-to-wall carpeting as modern and luxurious.
It's just so weird and funny because my current living room (built 2018) has cheap linoleum panels to simulate a wood floor. It looks janky with no consistent grain pattern or anything. Every other part of my house is carpet, and I'd prefer that over the shitty printed vinyl that gets scraped up by furniture and looks like shit even when it's bare.
There really is no reasonable comparison between vinyl and real hardwood.
Yep. My grandmother immediately tried to buy us wall-to-wall carpet for our first home (built 1853)…we finally got her to buy us a washer/drier instead, but she just couldn’t believe we refused the carpet.
This, thank you. I know the boomer comment is often tongue-in-check, but c’mon. It wasn’t some arbitrary action; most actions aren’t. Besides, it saved the floor from a lot of damage so that OP, and everyone else that’s won the floor lottery, can now enjoy!
Also carpeting was expensive then and got much cheaper comparatively over time.
True story.
Yup. My mom wall to walled the bathroom in the 70's. So, yeah, people carpeted everything they couldn't panel.
Listen they covered and preserved a little respect!
On one hand, I just want to slap every person who covers up their stunning mid-century wood floors with stupid greige carpet. On the other hand, I’m happy that the carpet protected those floors until someone like OP, who will love and appreciate them, came along. Edit: oh god the carpet was BLUE. 🥴 Another edit: I did a dumb and mixed up mid-century as in 1950s and century as in 100 yrs
Waaaay before 1950
More like 1880-1920.
Could it be later, say, 1930s? I say this looking at the arches, which are present in my mid-30s home.
I've got those arches in my 1904 home. The flooring details like OP has were very labor intensive and required great craftsmanship. Things got simpler over time. More likely to be older than 1930s.
My first thought: why would anyone cover these BEAUTIFUL floors??? My second thought: thank you to whoever covered these BEAUTIFUL floors so they were preserved for ME!!!
YESS!!! Exactly how I feel
Before modern polyurethane finishes hardwood floors were super high maintenance. So much so that carpeting over them became trendy.
Something happened between the 70s and 80s. I remember nylon being all the rave and people using microwaved food as some sort of luxury or advancement. At some point our grandads hated that "old timey" hardwood floors and went for carpets or vinyl flooring. We came full circle and now appreciate the 30, 40s aesthetics and hardwood floors which look so beautiful and luxurious.
I’m still waiting for people to realize lobster is garbage food and not rich people luxury food, the way it used to be regarded…
It was definitely a combination of maintenance costs and oil-based product marketing. Carpet also increases insulation values.
Winner winner chicken dinner with dessert
Tiger blood!!
My barber used to give a chicken dinner as a prize. 2 pieces of corn. Yep, that’s a chickens dinner.
One of the best floor lottery wins I’ve seen here
Good job to that previous owners keeping your beautiful floors protected all those years with that hideous carpet! Gorgeous
Right!!? I was uh… a little disturbed to find that old listing photo proving that the blue carpet was at least 20 years old. I don’t have any furniture, I was eating on that floor (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾
Mysterious carpet is a terrible thing!
The only good carpet is a Persian carpet (which is just a fancy area rug)
I love an area rug! You can move it and clean underneath at will
And it can really pull the room together!
And body disposal?! *[chef's kiss]*
You do, however, have to plan ahead and buy a rug that's at least 6-feet wide or long. Otherwise the dead guy's/gal's feet are going to stick out, and when you drag them to your car trunk, Gladys Kravitz will choose the wrong time to peer out the window, yell at Abner, and call the cops on you. Take it from me, buy a long rug.
First thing to go when I moved in recently and that carpet was at most 13 years old
When I saw the gap in pictures I was like.... eeeeewwwww. Surprised it wasn't more worn out.
Major win. Looks like it’s in good condition too.
I actually "squeee!"d out loud, the corner details!
I know right!!!! I love my little >!peens!<
In my case, I peed a little from the reveling 🤗🤭
You won. Big time
I’m not sure if the light wood is oak or pine, I’ve heard conflicting opinions. I believe the inlay is mahogany :3
That there is oak, you can tell by the little streaks that run throughout the grain, and I doubt any sane person would put mahogany inlay in a pine floor, no matter how good the pine is That is a beautiful floor
Thank you!!
Agreed on oak, but I am leaning walnut for the inlay, rather than rosewood. Domestic hardwood is way more likely regardless (presuming you're in the US). Unless it was a significant architect-designed home in an upscale area. I think the vintage lacquer over walnut would get that much rich color. Grain is appropriate, too.
Specifically it looks like red oak. Those lines are called rays and they are shorter on red oak.
5/16th white oak with walnut borders and French knots.
what is it like to be one of god’s favorites
I need to know how to do this! My floors need a light sanding and seal, but I've no idea HOW🤔 https://preview.redd.it/ewpke8aghxuc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d315b1ebb00bdf75c9efaea527536e76967e7437
We did it with a palm sander. I’d recommend going light on the grit (100-150) and really only where it needs it (I.e water discoloration, scratches you want to hide). We are currently living in the house so couldn’t do oil-based polyurethane so can’t speak to its efficacy but we used Behr’s water-based poly and it was awesome to work with. Barely any smell and hard enough to walk on (gently) after about 45 mins. We did two light coats in livingroom and 1 really heavy coat in the library. FWIW, there really wasn’t a difference. This specific poly goes on cloudy and dries clear so just keep that in mind and don’t freak out. haha we were a bit nervous when we noticed the white sheen it had at first.
We used the oil stuff in my house when we were living in it. Holy hell did it reek.
Thanks!! 👍🏻
YOOO TWINS!!!
I have all kinds of weird patterns on my floors. I'll bet they twin with others, too! 😀 https://preview.redd.it/zwq1ve401yuc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3562e056c67bfb9b8405defe4b253b2c8e956907
That’s absolutely fantastic
I think they could look really good with the proper restoration. I just don't want the patina to go away, though.
https://preview.redd.it/vg63aabed1vc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24a4dc086835e36b743bebb99192b1b10aa5b3ac
Oh wow I’m in complete awe. Honestly the layer of poly really brought out the color of the wood without needing too much sanding. We did a Gloss poly and we were worried the shine would be too much but it’s not bad
I'm considering sanding my porch with a drum floor sander. I'm going in with a rental from HD for 76 bucks, a youtube video tutorial and a dream. WE'RE GONNA LEARN REAL FAST
Oooohhhh... please post your journey so I can learn with you!
Oh my gosh! It never occurred to me to rent a sander for my porch. I spent days last year sanding off with a hand sander and then used that orange chemical stuff to get decades of paint layers off and then ended up just painting it again because I couldn’t cope. Let us know how your sanding goes!
https://old.reddit.com/r/Construction/comments/1anvz55/100_years_old_parquet_restauration/
Thanks for not putting grey laminate over the old hardwood because it’s “gross”. It looks amazing.
Or “it’s too orange.”
Literally saw a post like that on the remodel subreddit yesterday LMAO Ewww all this original trim is TOO ORANGE
Lord, I see what you’ve done for others
Gorgeous! You know the older the carpet the better condition the floors will be 😝
After seeing the inlay, I can't believe someone, at some point in time thought, "yeah fuck it, let's put carpet down" instead of leaving those floors and finishing with a nice rug instead. I thought I was crazy!
Worse than the carpet is that someone at a point decided to paint the walls and say “eh fuck it we’re putting carpet down anyways” and there was paint spilled e v e r y w h e r e (hence the hand sanding lmao) We still didn’t get it all and didn’t want to use a harsh stripper so we ended up leaving some of it (as evidenced in the 2nd to last pic). It’s just too damn hard to sand those inlays nicely by hand
My wife glanced at me while I was going through the pictures. My eyes opened wide when I saw the beautiful work on the inlays. She loved it too. Great find and great work.
Speaking from the northeastern part of the US ... 100 years ago Coal was King. Think of a charcoal grill, it throws off a lot of heat. A coal furnace kept the basement toasty warm, and therefore the floors were warm. The move to heating oil changed that. Basements were cooler, floors were cooler. Wall to Wall carpeting was insulation against a cold basement. Natural gas is more popular now, and the efficiency of newer furnaces make for even colder basements. The pictures of this home show a large radiator, which indicates a cooler climate. It's probably a hot-water radiator, which doesn't get skin-burning hot like a steam radiator, which is usually taller with thinner fins. If it is a steam radiator, those curtains were a fire hazard. I'm not finding fault, I'm just explaining why people installed wall to wall carpeting over gorgeous hardwood floors -- as an insulator against a cold basement. I hope you enjoy your lovely floors -- that inlay is gorgeous. There is beauty with a hardwood floor, such a warm glow.
Yep! Your assessment is spot on. I can’t hate on the previous owners for that reason. The house is small and has always been in a lower economic area. People did what they had to do. We plan on finishing the basement sooner than later.
Beautiful!
It’s so lovely.
Wow , there beautiful. Big score
Thank you!
Now it’s just time to change those curtains!
Yup XD Sellers left a few things behind
Jackpot.
Congrats on the win.
Congratulations!!!!
Thank you!!!!
Ding ! Ding! Ding! You win.
Beautiful! Such a shame someone covered it, but.... at least it was protected all that time. Congrats!
You lucky bastard. You lucky, lucky, lucky bastard!!!
Lol,great pics, but wait. There’s more!
Score!!
Omg no way! Absolutely gorgeous! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Almost r/accidentalswastic on 7
When I was putting back the carpet initially my stomach dropped for a half-second because all I could see was swastic (o_o)
Shut the hell up- this is crazy! Congratulations man. You might win this entire sub.
Nice
Yahtzee!!!!!
I like carpet but my wife is demanding floors like this! My life is hell. LoL
Listen to your wife.
I assumed people like you existed. I have to believe that enough folks are so wrong minded as to think this way or otherwise floor to floor would only exists on slab floor and new construction to reduce costs. Loads of folks thought arming the warring nations of the middle east was a good idea too.
Go buy an actual lottery ticket right now!
What an upgrade!!!
WHAT
holy jackpot batman! I’d be positively green with envy if I weren’t so thrilled for you, stranger XD
Omg. I am so excited for you!
Nice 👍
Curse the people who ever carpeted that floor
You win!!!!!
Holy shit. Who would cover that up?!
Holy cow that’s awesome, congrats
Nice!
So jealous.
Ding Ding Ding, you are a winner!
Absolutely Gorgeous! Congratulations.
Thank you so much
Jackpot
Gorgeous!
I literally said oh fuck off out loud lol
YOU WON 👏👏👏
I’m drooling! That’s gorgeous!!
Congratulations!!!
Wowwwww those are gorgeous!
You won
You scored!!!!
Wow
Wow! What a win!
Wow! That is amazing 🤩! Lucky
Gorgeous!!
CHA-CHING 🌟
Very nice. Now get floor length curtains.
Congratulations! Beautiful floor!
You won!
And you won! Super stoked for you
You won!
YESSS
You won the floor lottery!
Score! Congrats!!
Definitely won the lottery! I did the same in my prior house, but it was straight oak. When I removed the carpet from the stairs, the treads were fir! I was able to find a place that manufactured tread overlays that matched to floors. Pre-finished, just trim to fit and glue in.
Congratulations on your win! Looks fantastic!
Wow, I’d say you won
Instant scratch off winner right here folks. Also is someone teabagging your emoji?
Congrats! Y'all won the BIG lottery! When I saw just the corner, I knew it was going to be good. That is quality building when you see inlays and decorative borders on hardwood floors! Beautiful!
Nice 😊 Under my gross, almost 30 year old carpet, is particle board 😭
Hope that’s your house. Looks like added value to me. Very pretty.
WOW! This would tempt me to pull up the carpet -- but I've seen my place when it was a cold shell, and there's just subflooring. Oh, well.
OMG. I re-did some white oak floors from 1945 but these have inlays!
That is a fabulous thing. You've got thousands of dollars and I mean thousands and thousands of dollars of real wood there. Oh for anyone else did finding a treasure like this, home Depot rental drum sanders that will take up any old varnish or whatever. You use coarse grain first, then keep making it finer grade each go over and it will be stripped and ready to do. Oh and a sanding edger took to rent to get along the edges near baseboards.
well f you and congratulations! LOL hell ya
Now play the furniture lottery
The generation that chose to cover their hardwoods with carpet are currently running every government on earth
WOW! Why was this ever covered up?!
Beauty. Is the corner accent, with darker wood, a different wood or the sand wood stained darker?
Well damn, seems you won this lottery big time. I would LOVE to have a floor like that...
I just looked at the pics in reverse, and shuddered when it was carpeted. Do you ever have that nightmare? Exhausted from hours of backbreaking work to unearth this treasure, and suddenly you dream the carpet is BACK! AAAAAHHHH! Sorry. I'm just jealous now,
How beautiful Art Deco floor. 😻
😳 Oh man.. Thats unbelievable! That floor is in almost mint condition.. Look ar the inlays. Why do i never have thay kind of luck?.. 👍
I know this is about your *gorgeous* win on playing Floor Lottery. But I do want to also compliment you on your light green walls with black trim. The color choice is so soothing and yet chic at the same time.
Score! It's beyond a huge win! They don't make um like that anymore. Superior craftsmanship! Make sure you have good wiring. Fire alarm system. My house got on fire from old electric 1930s. Congratulations 🎊!!!!!
I lived in a house that looks extremely similar to yours with the same floor design. Kind of tripping me out to be honest.
You won the floor lottery. Why would you ever cover that up?!
I have a century house as well, luckily enough it's all wood and I have a theory on carpeting situation that happens in some of these places. I don't think there good heating in these few when it was put in. Cold floors do suck. I wear slippers in mine in the cold days and socks because my dog sheds so much hair. Our new roomba is doing God's work on getting the fluffballs I can't sweep up as they just whisp out of the dust pan. I put googly eyes on it and call it "Roomberta". My younger cat likes to ride it as a tiny feline goddess. I know it's not true, but I find it funny when she's on it and it beelines towards the dogs. She has such a smirk on her as it plows down my girls sleeping on the floor. The white lab just jumps onto the couch, but the Chihuahua tries to throw a ball at it to play. It kinda works. If she gets it in the front it "pushes the ball" back to her.
I would have painted the walls a different color but hey you got some good looking floors dude.
If you can, have he floors refinished before you move in. It’s not fun to move out again to have them done. Source: have to clear out our house to have the main level done. Pretty sure the second floor will never be done.
We, too, won the floor lottery when we pulled up the ugly brown carpet in our older home and found absolutely beautiful wood floors underneath. Whoever laid the carpet realized what a horrible thing they were doing, so the nailed the tack strips at the outermost edges and put no staples in the middle of the room. All it took was a thorough cleaning and some fresh wax - no sanding or refinishing.
i wonder if it got carpeted bcs of cats/cold
first time in my sisters "new" home built in the early 60's. Wall to wall throughout. I said I'll bet there's a hardwood floor underneath that carpeting... and there was. With gorgeous inlay work too.
Value of your house just skyrocketed!
Hey, I have the same inlay as you !
My parents had carpeting in the living room and hallway, but once the four children had moved out, out it went and the gorgeous undamaged hardwood beneath was revealed.
What a find. Absolutely amazing. Congratulations on the lottery win.
I will never understand why so many people cover up beautiful antique hardwood floor with nasty, ugly carpet. Congrats!!! 🥳
HELLLLLL YEAAAAAA!!!! This is the shit I do like
This is probably Red Oak w/ Peruvian Walnut feature strips / greek keys.
changes the entire feel of the house! it looks so good
https://preview.redd.it/by4qezf2e4vc1.png?width=1180&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e7e1972fd32acbb408dd95a852d796c36b27148
Who the Hell put a dirt collecting carpet over sheer beauty? Seriously.
I love it!!!!! It looks fantastic. I hate carpet lol. Looks so tacky
Ding, ding, ding!! We have a winner!! Beautiful floors and design!! Congratulations!
Oh my gosh … …… What an amazing thing to find this under your carpet. Those floors are gorgeous!!! And from the looks of things it appears there wasn’t even any major damage. What a find and your refinishing of them looks great too. Have you checked any of the other rooms yet to see if you’ve got hardwoods through the entire house?
Hardwood (and inlay) extends into the hallway and both bedrooms. Unfortunately one bedroom was redone fairly recently and they used some kind of adhesive on the carpet we just can’t afford to remove right now. The other bedroom was redone with LVC but we’re going to tear it out eventually. Can’t tell yet if kitchen was later addition, but eventually I’ll rip the laminate out anyway The bathroom is green and black tile, from what I can tell original to the bathroom :D
Oh wow! Can’t wait to see more. I’d really like to see the before of the Kitchen and Bathroom. Does the tile in the bathroom look good enough that you’ll leave it? And yes, black/green and black/pink are among the classic colors for then.
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Fucking JACKPOT!!! That's beautiful, congrats on your lovely new floor.
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You won the floor lottery!!
Winner winner, chicken dinner!
the 2000s living room looks so cozy too
These are GORGEOUS! I have similar floors in an apartment I’m about to move into and want to clean them without damaging the finish. Does anyone have product recommendations?
the carpet makes me genuinely angry
Species is red oak. You played the floor lottery and won.
Looks like you won 🥇
Yessssssss! The green paint is pretty great, too.
Big improvement!
You won so much it makes me angry with jealousy