Crying Shame

We just had a floor guy come to the house to do some measuring on the playroom and to give us an estimate on how much it could cost to have hard wood floors (75% of the house is visible hardwood, ends up more like 98% of the house is hardwood floors) in there. We knew that it was an addition so we never in our wildest dreams thought that there would be a hardwood floor under the carpet in that room. Well, he pulled back the carpet to see what was in there and low and behold there is Solid Oak Floors in that room. It was a wonderful surprise. Some idiot covered up all those beautiful wood floors with carpet, and not very pretty carpet at that. They will be here on Thursday to pull up the carpet and do all the things to it that need to be done to make it beautiful. We will have a completely new room by Saturday. Then he told us some more wonderful news all the wood floors on the 1st floor of the house, which include the kitchen (someone put linoleum over the top of it), are Antique Heart Pine Floors (very expensive....like 14 dollars a square foot to get it put in your home now). So the entire main floor is all wood floors except the bathroom, front entry mud room, and the small addition on the back of the kitchen. He thinks that under the upstairs bathroom tile floor is also wood floor. The entire second floor and the stairs (from the first floor to the second) are Solid Oak Floors. All repairable and refinishable. YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! So I bet our house might be worth far more than the estimates that were given to the morgage companies. This things will make great selling points should we ever choose to sell and move. Oh! All our windows are antique glass. Yes, eventually we will need to get them replaced but that glass is exteremly valuable, so we will be very careful removing it. I am considering having a hutch or something handcraft for me using some of that glass. We have an antique lead window (my mother in law confirmed that) in our entry mud room.....lol, I had mentioned maybe stain glassing it and she told Kirk not to let me do that, that it was antique. We decided not to have the kitchen relocated or even widened out. We are just going to have it gutted and some slight changes to it and we think we can get room for less money. I am very excited. I think this will be fun. If you got our Christmas letter, like I said in that, I feel a Flip that House type senario coming on for us. When they are done with the playroom floor I will take pictures and share.