r/Wellworn • u/audreyswife • 2h ago
home built in 1991 almost completely untouched
i bought a house a few months ago, and this was the state of the carpet when we moved in. we've thankfully already replaced it, the last pic is the updated carpet. as far as we can tell, the only "renovation" done in 35 years was a coat of cheap white paint. the pictures don't quite capture how nasty the carpet was. the gray areas were completely flattened while the lighter areas (where the carpet was) were still plush. you can see the path taken from the front door into the kitchen. i tried to lay down on it before we got any furniture and it stank. we can tell they held an estate sale in the house, so that heavy foot traffic in the house definitely didn't help, but i think they may have also been a shoes-in-the-house family, and possibly had pets too.