On the south east corner, the gold trim is missing as far as I have seen. Again, I'm not sure if at one point they tried to pull up that layer, and decided it was too difficult after they pulled the gold. The more I uncover, the more I'll know. I am worried that the main will be damaged beyond repair, which is part of why I want to just see it. Yet, if it is bad, I'll regret my hastiness. Even though the vinyl planks don't stick to it, it's very, very tricky to get them off without breaking one of the adhesion strips that help them stick to themselves--in particular with heavily trafficked areas. So to try to put them back down really doesn't work in the "quick peek and then back down" sense. I've tried to save what full planks I can in case I can get rid of at least some of it via a Free Craig's List ad, as I'd rather it gets used by someone who needs it rather than sit in a dump. I've been using trimmed wax paper on the adhesion strips to keep them from sticking to whatever as well as picking up dirt and such.
I also had to stop because I am already getting a bit mired in "too many projects at the same time". I have yard work galore (thanks to former tenants), some minor-ish plumbing issues, and finishing the kitchen cleaning (again, ty former tenants ), for starters--none easily or quickly done. Little steps here and there are progressing everything overall along, but I still have to be mindful to not "start another" too much despite the itch. Except for the kitchen and creeping into the dining room floor, I've been pretty good sticking to "need to/should be" fixes.
I'm still hopeful that we'll be able to retain the floor in the dining and possibly the hall as well. The kitchen, we already know is just too far gone unless it turns out footage wise it's easier to patch the kitchen from what's good in the dining/hall. It's highly unlikely we'll be able to even piece match from an out of home source, and I still kinda want cork in the kitchen anyhoo. I'm already eyeballing the long edge of the kitchen to possibly replace the short area near the exterior door that was damaged, and mentally measuring out how much of the kitchen gold trim we might be able to possibly transfer.
I do have a lot of images, because I'm very visually minded. I have some in folders where the names of images are things like "border bit on the curtain" or "love this color wall tile", and that's the only reason in some cases that I have a picture of an entire room--those bits. Still, keeping the whole room images helps sometimes (like with Mick's curtain rod issue--I had saved that image due to the border stencil).phil wrote:{snip}you must have a stash of cool pics, the stuff you come up with is awesome.. that yellow and blue kitchen is so neat.
When I need new ones, I still hit walls search wise sometimes because I lack either the vocabulary, or haven't yet learned how The Internet wants me to phrase something.