Ripping Old Carpet Off The Stairs: a house log

We’d enjoy to claim these before and afters as our own, but most of you know that our house is a one story ranch by now. Bummer.

Anyway, this is what the stairway at my best friend’s Washington DC townhouse looked like this morning:

And this afternoon:

Let us give the girl a hand! Remarkable transformation. I am never one to endorse covering up vivid wood flooring- and this gleaming staircase is no exception. Does not it look much better naked?

Of course she has some painting to do on those toe-kicks, but that’ll be swift and painless. The good news is that no sanding and restaining of the once-covered floorboards is necessary. Gotta enjoy it when carpet comes up without a hitch.