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Photo : Shutterstock ( Shutterstock ) The first apartment I rented as a poor twenty-something had crappy wood floors that were painted brown, a fact I never much thought about until years later, after I bought my first house and had to tear some absolutely heinous green carpet up off our stairs . Underneath I discover pitted, cracked, and downright ugly treads underneath. I remembered those old painted floors, and painted our stairs, and suddenly saw my former landlord’s decisions in a whole new light. For a lot of people, this sounds like sacrilege—the accepted wisdom is that hardwood flooring is beautiful, durable, and should be preserved at all costs. But you know what? Painting those stairs worked, and made me realize that painting wood floors isn’t always crazy. In fact, there are a few reasons why you might consider doing it in your own home. Reasons to paint wood floors There are fundamentally two reasons to paint a wood floor: Aesthetics and for more practical reasons. Le...