Buying flooring on the Internet.

There are about 2ksqft of carpet in the house. Most of it is 1980s high pile in tan; some is light blue. The rumpus room is beige berber.

Underneath the sellers' furniture, the carpet is unexciting. I don't like carpet in general, but we'd probably let it stay. Where the furniture wasn't, though, it is stained and gross. It smells of cat pee in a way that suggests it has been professionally cleaned and yet the pee got into the underlayment. The smell is worse when the house is empty and closed up. 

See that brown patch in the front right?  That's not a trick of the light. 

The carpet needs to go. 

Sinc we are getting rid of it anyways, we can have what I really want: hardwood. Tile would also be period, but I like wood better. 

We got stranded bamboo. Basically, they compress and glue and do magic things to bamboo so that it is stronger and less bamboo-looking. Bamboo is not period, but I love it, especially in this light natural color. Stranded bamboo is super hard and dense. It's oddly cheap, so we got solid wood not engineered or laminate. 

When you buy 2000 square feet of flooring in 91 boxes, they freight it to you. Some of it comes from Tukwila and some from Atlanta, and of course neither freight company knows when, even though there's only one local carrier that serves MHK so in theory they should be able to figure this out.  Probably Atlanta gets here tomorrow and Tukwila on Monday, so no pics yet.