Another Home Renovation Project

Another weekend meant another home renovation project. This time, we tackled the living room stairs that go up to our tv room/office and spare bedroom. It had light-colored carpeting on it, that once covered the living room floor. Of course, with 2 doggies, it got pretty dirty, pretty quickly.
So, we removed the carpeting and padding, to find rubber stair mats stapled underneath, and adhered on with some kind of double-sided sticky, nasty tape. It required peeling the tape off carefully, and then scrubbing the adhesive with turpentine, then soap and water (after yanking out the nails and hundreds of staples!). Next was filling out those hundreds of tiny holes with wood fill and smoothing them out. We're going to paint next, and then cover with a carpet runner (ordered). Hopefully, we'll get the carpet in and finish it over this coming weekend!