Today my floor guys came back to put on the final coat of poly. I’m not posting new pictures, because it looks just like before, only maybe very slightly shinier. But a conversation today reminded me that I never actually showed what the bottom layer of lineoleum looked like. Way back in this post I showed all the layers of floor I had to go through to get to the hardwood.

But I hadn’t discovered the extent of the awesomeness of the bottom layer of flooring, yet. That happened a week or so later, as I got to the middle of the floor on the “eating” side of the room, and discovered a medallion. A star, made of different colors of linoleum, in the sorta-middle of the floor. I say sorta-middle because it wasn’t actually centered – to the room, to the window, to the cabinets, to anything. And the existence of this medallion concerned me, because it implied that maybe there was another one in the middle of the “kitchen” side of the room. Turns out, I was right to be concerned, because not only was there another one, it was also not centered. To anything, including the other medallion. I… there are just not words for the randomness.

Here, see for yourselves, a semi-close-up of one star (with a couple pieces missing that came up with the layer above it), and a long shot so you can see the two stars in relation to one another. Looking back on this, my “character”-riddled floor suddenly seems so much more awesome.