Back to some home reno

We made a list and check it twice... renovation schedule is back on. And yet we are already off schedule.

After working on our schedule and time line from now until June for about an hour, Mr Spaghettibender takes off in another direction. Removing the hideous shag carpeting from our basement stairs. It is the last remanence of the shag from our basement and a bit of a reminder of how far we've come.

And like all jobs - you think will be easy and turn out to take much more time and effort than you thought. We started ripping the carpet off only to find that the disintegrated under padding is sticking to the stairs. Great ... out come the scrapers. Then we realize that all the herds of cows that have come up and down the stairs in the last 40yrs have caused that step to pull away from the "stringer" ... I marvel at my vocabulary... basically the side part of the stairs that the steps get nailed into. So we had to do a little reconstructing after removing the loads of crap that Mr Spaghettibender has stored under the stairs. This was taking us forever.

The end results was some bright orange/red stairs that weren't in the greatest of shapes. So do we take the time to strip the stairs and stain them or do we just paint them. We decide to sleep on it.

Day 2 we run off to Home Depot to look at painting the stairs. I wonder around looking at light fixtures and ceramic tiles... I can sometimes loss myself in Home depot. They have this new cool wood linoleum. It is amazing - honestly it looks 100% better than laminate. I was trying to come up with a place I could try it out but the only thing I came up with was the laundry room. Then there would be way too many floor finishes in the basement - nah! A small can of floor paint can't be tinted - what?! How was the smart guy that came up with that logic? There was no way I was going to buy a gallon of floor paint for the stairs. So thankfully we spoke to a more knowledgeable guy and he said to use a pint of tremclad because it would take the brunt of the stairs. I guess well see. I am still high off the paint fumes. Who paints with oil in the winter - wait - we do!