Meet Holly!!

After almost two months of anticipation, I am proud to show off Holly, our new house! The keys were presented to us on Wednesday, the we spent the next two evenings exploring the place.

The living room has two layers of carpet, padding and a layer of linoleum glued down to the wood floors.

This is Jered scraping off the purple linoleum. It came off pretty good in most spots, but some places were glued on very well!

This is the spare bedroom. The carpet had been mostly pieced together, so it was quite easy to remove. The dark wood underneath is just beautiful!!

But there were more than a few imperfections as well.

Daisy doesn't know what to think. She is pretty nervous walking around and such, but I am sure she will settle down, once we settle down....

This is going to be our bedroom. This carpet came up the easiest.

That was two layers of carpet and padding, it was friggen heavy! We ended up unrolling it and cutting it in half just to get it into the truck.

Last, but for sure not least, was the linoleum. I took this picture because Jered had a big piece starting to rip. That happened a few times, but what I will really remember is the little pieces that just refused to let go.

Frick! Another thing I will remember will be uncovering this bright piece of wood. It was quite an eye sore compared to the rest of the room (spare room).

Here more than half of the linoleum is up. There is a pile of wall paper (it was underneath the carpet in our bedroom along with some newspaper from April 25th, 1965) and such that we are going to save for when we paint. There was still a lot of glue left from the linoleum, with beautiful wood peaking through the cracks.

There is still a lot of work ahead, but it sure is exciting. Stay tuned!!