Little treasures

In the Pandora's box known as our new house, we keep finding little hidden surprises. Some great. Some less-than-stellar.

For example, last night we found hardwoods under our kitchen floor. Finding these hardwoods involved a little elbow grease. First, we pulled up some linoleum. Under that, we found some plywood. We pulled some of that up to find another layer of linoleum. So we pulled that stuff off and found a layer of particle board. Under that, we found yet another layer of linoleum. And finally, under all that crap, we found hardwoods. (For those of you mathematically challenged, that's 3 layers of linoleum, 1 layer of plywood, and 1 layer of particle board). The people who previously owned this place either really hated hardwood, or were incredibly lazy. Or maybe they knew something we'll find out soon, like that half the floor's missing. Or there's bunch of water damage. Or a dead body.

On the plus side, when we finally remove those 5 layers of flooring, we'll have some nicely preserved hardwoods, and our floor-to-ceiling height will grow by at least an inch.

On the less-than-stellar side, up the bird poop room, Chris pulled out a giant A/C unit that was glued into the window sill. And between the A/C and the sill, he found a bird's nest. Sooooo, I'm starting to think the crazy lady who lived there before us didn't actually own a bird, but rather tried to domesticate some wild ones. Lovely.

So, did I mention the hardwoods? We have hardwoods.