what lies beneath

The tentative plan had been to pull up the kitchen floor and prepare to lay down porcelain tile, which we'd actually talked ourselves into doing ourselves. Thankfully, we may never get the chance to rue that day. Underneath the grey vinyl tile we found a layer of baby-girl pink tile. Underneath the pink, a tenacious layer of backer-board -- truly foul in places and nailed down by a maniac (some edges have something close to 20 3" nails. Did he think it was going somewhere?). Underneath that -- jackpot! Hard wood floors. We're guessing it's yellow pine, and so far it's in pretty good shape.

Before and after pictures to follow just as soon as we get a pry bar and some time to finish the job.