Carpet BEGONE! Painting Plywood Floors...

Have you ever done a project where your husband gave you a look like "just shoot me"???

We'll i kinda did that

again...

What seemed like perfectly good and harmless carpet and vinyl in our bathroom to mr. fracturedfairytale... 

seemed like evil, dirt and germ bearing, wrinkly, gucky, horrible floor covering that HAD to be removed to me

so remove it i did!

ted just wandered off quietly 

 I've just starting painting the wall... so you will see two different paint colors 

here i've already changed out the oval mirror from the first photo, to this cool little vintage mirror i found at the thrift shop years ago...

Anyway, what is the deal with carpet???
Who ever thought that was a good idea? to put synthetic fabric on the floor that has to stay there until it becomes so nasty your feet stick to it?


Especially if you have kids and pets..
kids throw up on it, pets pee and poop on it, 

and how about cat pee?

 go ahead, try to get the smell of cat pee out of anything, especially carpet and upholstery

you could fling a grenade in your house and blow it up

and in the smoldering embers, you would still smell cat pee 
( just want to note, i do really like cats, just not when they pee in your shoes)


carpet gives off toxic gases, and holds every germ and piece of dirt you walk onto it
it gets stained, and then you have to obsess about the stains...

well... i do

I see it in schools and pharmacies, and i'm like... really? 

A pharmacy where every sick person with strep and staph and ebola and tuberculosis, and small pox, and flesh eating bacteria.... 

ok a little exaggeration but... 

 schools,... come on !
one needs to be able to disinfect a floor at a school... !

The only reason i would ever have carpet, is if i couldn't afford anything else i could clean with a good rag

That being said

my house is mostly carpet...

because i can't afford to have stuff i can clean with a good rag...

well, except...
 i can rip that stuff up, and paint the floors!

Soooo, now that's out of my system, 
sorry....
 here is the progression

old carpet, starting to wrinkle and gather...

random vinyl

getting there...

ahhhh.... feels better already to me, i like wood, even if it's plywood!

 primed

 painted in a soft white glossy, water based floor enamel

a few of the 8 million squares i taped off... 

oh that was fun... 

i have about as much attention span as a gerbil, so that stretched my limits of patience

(no offense meant to gerbils out there)

anyway, i just eyeballed a square in about the center of the bathroom using a vinyl tile... drew a pencil line around each one,  and put tape in the inside of each white square

all done, except for the shiny sealer!  

I did learn that you should pull the tape off while the paint is still wet... i've done this before, and it's true... if the paint dries first, when you pull up the tape it pulls up paint from the surrounding square

The worst part, taping the squares, and getting up and down off of the floor...

i'm getting too old for this stuff!

here is the room with a pretty little vintage candelabra with pink candles... 

of course i had to put something pink in the mix 

i love this thing, but i never really know where to put it, so it gets moved around alot...

  

now here it is on my bedside dresser

moved even during this photo session...

Ok, so i'm sorry if some of you like carpet... 

I'm sure i'd love you anyway, it's me, it's not you...;)

There were two things i decided i would absolutely not compromise on  when Ted and I were buying a house we could afford...

Hardwood Floors

and

A Real Wood Burning Fireplace

Guess what...

We didn't end up with either one of them

and I'm ok with that...

this house gets alot of light from the sun all day 

and i love that

...the end...