I come from a long line of wall-to-wall carpet-haters. Last weekend I put my newly-graduated-from-highschool brother, Jacob, to work helping me rip all the carpet out of my house. It took us two days to get the carpet out, the tack strips pried up, and all the staples pulled out (of which there were thousands). It was absolutely backbreaking work, but it didn’t even compare to how hard it was to scrub the original linoleum tile floor underneath. Getting rid of the carpets has also gotten rid of that stale, closed-up old house smell. Our allergies are a lot better now, too.

I’m going to put in a brand new, totally rockin’ bamboo floor this summer.