"You're Not Cool..."

That was my husband's reaction when he saw what I'd been up to while he was at work the other afternoon.

You see, my husband is afraid of what condition the wood floors are in UNDER the carpet and has expressed that he thinks we need to leave the carpets alone (I believe his exact words were, "I swear to God if you rip up the carpets that will be IT!"). On this particular day, however, I decided to dip my toes in the water (so to speak) and gauge how upset he'd be without carpet—I'm working up to ripping up the carpet in our living room and dining room areas (how bad can "IT" be??).

This is carpet on the upstairs landing outside of the bedrooms that I didn't take up when I removed the carpet from the stairs a couple of years ago.

Carpet's gone! Now on to the pad! Someone went berserk with the stapler!

And... VOILA! Look at that floor! Wood grain is so pretty!

Now I need to deal with the threshold in the door opening that goes from the bathroom to the landing. Currently we have linoleum in the bathroom and the bright metal toothed carpet/transition strip is no longer needed.

Look at those teeth!

After a quick trip to Lowe's we're all set! A nice oak transition strip between the bathroom and the landing!

The strip came in unfinished oak, but I had a can of spray stain/ lacquer that I hit it with to better blend in to the rest of the floor color for now.

Do you think it would make my husband feel any better to know that the carpet didn't leave without a fight? Those darn staples drew blood THREE TIMES! Grr...