Unexpected

Over Father's Day weekend,

I finally convinced my husband to rip out the carpet in the Family Room.

In true DIY fashion,

we would use concrete "etching stain,"

and,

in about a day,

we have a beautiful Family Room floor again,

something just like the picture!

Beautiful,

low maintenance,

and totally achievable.

Right?

Wrong.

We cut the carpet out, removed the padding underneath in sections.

This is what we found when we finally saw the concrete slab.

Someone started to spray paint their name.

Someone else spilled the paint bucket,

then set the bucket in the spill,

then moved it around a couple of times,

and tried to unsuccessfully to clean it up.

Totally dashing our hopes for staining the concrete floor.

Our only option now was to take the plunge and get laminate flooring.