My house looks like total crap right now...and I'm giddy!

So true.  When we bought our house, we almost six weeks to move in.  We started with paint, but then we realized that it would be silly not to refinish the hardwood floors so we did that too.  And installed some tile in another room.  And put a wood floor in our dining room too.  It was a lot of work.  Luckily we had an empty house. 

I remember using hunter green and camel as my color theme in this house in the late 70s! I didn't realize it made a comeback in the 90s too. I am so envious that you are getting your whole house done! I would love to be able to do my upstairs. I cannot tell you how much I hate carpeting. Hate it! I own a carpet steamer thing, and one of those little green machine spot cleaners, and I spot clean whenever I see something and do a full steam clean at least once a year, but it still feels dirty and dusty to me. I can imagine what you found under yours, because that is what I picture under mine too.

When I was a child, we had wood floors in every room except the bathroom, the single bathroom, in our 3-bedroom house. My mom was soooo very happy when Dad let her get actual wall-to-wall carpeting. It was like this luxury thing that upped your status in the neighborhood. All the moms came over to see it and oooh and ahhh over it. And every bedroom was a different color of carpeting. I can remember being really sad to have my bedroom wood floor covered up. I shared a tiny bedroom with my younger sister and I kept my side of the floor spotless and polished. I though the wood was just so pretty and I polished my tiny slivers of flooring up until it was glossy and shiny. The thing is, I used Dad's shoe polish to do the floor in small patches by hand. I was caught when Mom went to do Dad's shoes and the wax was almost gone Oops. I didn't know all wax was not the same. The bedroom was tiny and my sister and I had a twin bed each, a desk each at the foot of our beds, and one nightstand between our beds. Her bed had to go in front of the closet because the room wasn't big enough to leave access to it. We had to stand on her bed, open the plastic accordion door to get our clothes. When the carpet men removed all the furniture, my side had these weird shaped shiny bits. I would love to see it all these years later when the new owners pull up the "old carpeting" to unearth the gorgeous old wood floors. If my sections are still shiny, they will wonder what the heck that room was used for.

Then by the time we moved into our next house, there was the traditional different color in every bedroom. My sister had deep red carpeting, mine was a turquoise blue, my parent's room was lavender, and the hallway, stairs, and living room was this blue and green weird looking stuff. But by then, the new thing was to have the same color throughout the whole house. What? I can't choose my own room? That sucked.

We carpeted in the house I am in now, because my ex insisted. I so wanted wood flooring like when I was little and I was laughed at. Everybody had carpet. Wood was considered too old fashioned. One of the first things I did when my ex moved out was to get wood flooring, well actually laminate because of the pool, put in downstairs. I was cautioned against using real wood because our downstairs bathroom is in the center of the downstairs and the kids would have to drip through the family room to reach the bathroom and it would ruin the wood over time. At least it looked like wood to me, so I was happy.

Now I am planning my next move, and I swear, one of the first things I will be hoping for is original wood flooring. If the house is too new to have wood, I'm going to have it put in before I spend one night in it. I love wood so much! Wow, that was a walk down memory lane.

Congratulations, and please show us before and after pictures! I would love to see the change.

Sing it sister!  I never want carpet in my house again.  We still have 3 bedrooms where it exists yet, but I have dreams of them one day being GONE!

That ^^

We just did the exact thing to our house over the last few weeks. My husband pulled up the carpet in our great/living room and pulled up old laminate flooring in the foyer and dining room of our house. He put down a floating floor. It took him a couple of weeks, but he's pretty much done. He just needs to add some quarter-round and transition pieces. It looks amazing! Ripping up the carpet was very eye-opening and we considered doing all the rooms. But our house is an open floor plan and it just wouldn't be good for acoustics and warmth to have the entire house with only wood-flooring. Plus we're planning to sell it soon and the realtor swayed us to keep carpets in the bedrooms. It was a long process and pretty hard on hubby (I helped whenever I could), but it was well worth it!

Good luck on your renovation!!!