House progression

Last week we were very busy trying to prepare the house for my parents visit this coming weekend. One of the few jobs I am able to do is cleaning the stove top. It is a beautiful original 1948 stove top, and it hasn't been cleaned since installation.

I finally had to resort to a razor blade.

Here is a burner before cleaning:

During cleaning:

And after cleaning:

While I worked on that, Sky removed the old linoleum and discovered the original tile.

We were going to try to save the original tile, but there were too many nails in it, and it just cracked and broke when trying to remove them. So we (meaning Skyler) took them out and we're going to lay down some new colorful tiles of the same style.

This week we also got the hardwood floors refinished.

It looks really nice, but now we're fully aware of how dirty everything else is!