People love to point out how “quirky” the floors in our house are — “This is so funny! They tiled linoleum around the remnant carpet?!”

Most of the house is pine covered in layers and layers on linoleum (we’re working on it). They’re impossible to clean and I live in constant fear of splinters. I hate them.  Except for these. I really can’t argue for a better floor treatment than trompe l’oeil floral carpet pattern on roll out linoleum sheet. The wall color, however, had to go.

So, as it turns out, our chimney is totally open. It being winter, and me being totally terrified of creatures creeping into the third floor, we abandoned any dreams of having a working fireplace and boarded that shit back up.