More Floor....

I woke up yesterday and decided to pull up the carpet on our landing upstairs. And then David came home and took up the carpeting on the stairs. Before you know it this house won't have any carpet at all. We've been debating whether to pull it up and I had just about had it and decided....now or never. We knew there were hardwood floors underneath but weren't sure what shape they were in. We had pushed around the idea of just painting them and had decided we may regret that in the future so we were planning on doing the whole strip, sand, stain, and poly again. But upon pulling it up they've already been painted. Painting it is. At this time it's been a total relief that they were painted. I really didn't want to do that much work that soon. So last night David sanded them down and I filled the cracks. Today we have to re-sand the putty and then get painting. I'm excited. So far everything has gone quite smooth so that's been nice. We want to do so many things around the house but some of them aren't weekend type of jobs and definitely not financially weekend type jobs if you know what I mean. And most require sanding which is just a pain since it gets everywhere. It's either-try to cover things and it's still messy, or just be messy and wash everything later. I just wish I could sand everything all at once and be done with it. But that would mean having 20 different jobs going at once....not good for the ol' OCD. I remember moving in thinking, "there's not much we have to do." and believe it or not there hasn't been however, we get on these kicks and want to change everything. i.e. the floor. Never was thinking about pulling the carpet up while moving in-at least that soon, it was old though. Then with Lily, and I just got frustrated...so we pulled it up, which then lead to the cat room, and now the stairs and the landing...and you know our bedroom will get done at some point. It's a lot of hardwork but cheaper than recarpeting, especially when you have an animal with IBD, and never know when there may be an accident. Ah well, one more thing to check of the list. Next up, upstairs bathroom vanity and closet, downstairs bathroom walls and closet, cat room walls (probably tearing down paneling), then the dreaded kitchen......paint paneling on lower half of walls, strip and recoat the cabinets, and then hopefully the floor. And we can't forget, we still need to put shoe molding around the baseboards in the downstairs.