idots should not decorate!

[jenluckenbach]

LOL!! But now you have uncovered buried treasure.

[Samantha Puppy]

I feel for you. But look on the bright side, at least you're uncovering nice things. With each home improvement Josh and I make in our current house we discover exactly how lazy the previous owners were. In our bedroom, they put 4 layers of border up - one on top of the other, some with paint in between the layers. Aidan's room had 3 layers of border. Our bathroom is double wallpapered.

I just don't get why, if you're going to IMPROVE your home, why people take such horrible short-cuts? If I did that, I wouldn't feel good about it, I'd think I was a lazy bastard!!!

I can't wait to get out of here and have a big, blank slate to decorate as my own.

[catnapper]

LOL... my house was much the same. My old neighbor bought a "new" old house. She was told the floors under the wall to wall carpet were in bad shape. Well she pulled up what she called the "Papa Smurf Blue" carpet and found the most elegant inlaid oak flooring! Not only was the fllor geogeous, it was PERFECT. Not one human foot had touched it in 60 years... no pet stains, no human spills, nothing.

Trust me, when working on my own home, I have found many MANY things that made me say WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!? We found GORGEOUS oak steps hidden under baby poop green shag carpeting.

[cyber-sibes]

Isn't is nice to discover you have a little jewel underneath it all? We completely refinished our old house - all 8 layers of wallaper, old crappy linoleum, old crackled varnish....and it turned out beautifully!!!!! It was even featured in a museum show on contemporary bungalow living! Have fun!