Remodeling With a Vengeance

Remodels aren't always neat 'n tidy. For example, my girlfriend likes to "see what's under there" by slowly pulling up a corner of the carpet or linoleum because in her mind, what's under this has to be better than what is showing. This house above on 6th Ave W and W. Crockett in Queen Anne -- just across from Targy's Tavern -- reminds me of what my girlfriend would do: Just start ripping things off and throwing it out the window. We actually did do something like this to our basement just a few months ago: Ripping up old linoleum. It never occurred to us that we might be inviting mesothelioma.


BTW, there's another house just like this three doors away. Eerily similar: Big house, big mess all around. I smell the same owner involved in that one, too.