The Front Hall is Done

                                      

Whew!  Another room is finished!  This is the front hall, and it was photographed with an extreme wide angle lens, so the room is much smaller than it looks here!  The floors have had the original wall to wall carpet removed, and the pad beneath the rug as well, and then all the staples used to hold the padding.  Then the "tackless" strips around the edge of the room - those strips are what held the original carpet in place.  That's a nasty job, which eventually Kathy learned how to do!  Then the floor has been cleaned and sanded in some places, and some stain has been applied to even out the color, and then two coats of polyurethane have been applied to the floor, by brush. Whew!  But how beautiful it looks!  We weren't sure about the rugs here, but when we bought the dining room rug, it came with these two rugs as well!  Turns out, these rugs are perfect here!  Come visit us and see all our hard work.  Wait!  What are 80-year old people doing crawling around on our hands and knees, with hammers and pliers and scrapers and sanders?  Don't they know this work is for young people?