I mentioned in an earlier post how much it will pain me to rip up the current floors but I had every intention to use them in the rooms that had ugly tile or hap-hazerdly laid sub floor that was falling apart. However, as I was measuring, for some other reason, I was down in the corner of one of the largest rooms looking at trim, when I noticed something peering out from under what I though was subfloor. I ran to grab my crow bar, like a crazy person. My husband, who happened to be on site at that time just stood and stared completely confused about what was so exciting to prompt running through the house with a crow bar. I guess you could consider him crazy too, or just immune to his wife exstatically running around with a crow bar. But he just stood there perplexed yet unconcered. Never the less, I pull up the rotted sub floor in, with much greater ease than I expected, and there it is looking up at me what I believe to be the original floor!! Its under there !!
My sweet husband did not share my enthusiasm.
Maybe this is a good time to dive a bit deeper into our dynamics and indiviudal strengths and weaknesses. He is not a visual persons. He communicates well and is the social half. He’s they guy that everyone is friends with. He has been the Best Man at more weddings than any lifetime movie. And although he will humbly call himself an ass hole and is genuinely perplexed way so many friends have asked this of him, he really is the kind of friend that you can depend on. He doesn’t judge, he accepts you for who you are and will give you the shirt off his back without even thinking about how the sacrifice will effect him. But visualizing a concept or idea, even when if it’s drawn out in as much detail as a C.A.D. drawing, is not a talent he posses. I on the other hand prefer my family and close friends to any social environment. I do not like being in front of people and I am not a great communicator. But I can create and visualize a concept. We laugh because its become a running joke that, while I was designing our own kitchen I brought him ideas and hand sketches and even a professional digital rendering, down to the details of the door fronts and hardware, of what our kitchen would look like. But the day the kitchen was complete we stood there together admiring how great it turned out and he turns to me, “Did you know it was going to look like this?!!?!?” You can just imagin my perplexed, sideways glance as if he must be joking. But there he was looking right back at me deadpan serious with that question. I SHOWED HIM A FREAKIN DRAWING!! How could he not have known, but he honestly has other talents and that is not one. I didn’t realize until that point that he couldn’t read my mind. Just kidding, but I do wish he could. He also later confessed to having no clue where our bedroom was going to be either. Even though I walked him room by room through the house during framing, and drywall. God love him.
Back to floor. I have not gotten under the tile in the bathrooms yet but if I was a betting person I think it just may be under there as well, not sure Ill keep wood floor in a bathroom anyway but still fun to uncover more history the as I gradually explore this place. I guess time will tell. The goal is to have all my plans, ideas and layouts pretty solid before any demo starts but every time I think I have a direction figured out a new idea comes up or I discover something else. Have I mentioned the family memoirs about Matilda add this house? Well from what I have read, constructing took longer than planned because Matilda kept getting new ideas. Lordy I love this lady and her house more and more every day.
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Love reading this. This is so you!!
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