“I remember a place that the color scheme was avocado and tangerine, with a shag rug.”
when i bought my current house decades ago, the kitchen floor was covered with puke-inducing chartreuse linoleum ... it was only about the 3rd or 4th layer, with thin plywood between each layer ... used a circular saw with carbide blade to cut a one foot grid down to the subfloor and pried out 1.25” thick chunks of the layers and replaced with solid tongue and groove Australian Cyprus ...
also removed disgusting carpet that was covering solid oak floors in the bedrooms ...
and don’t even get me started on removing all of the disgusting wallpaper from the bedrooms and bathrooms ...
Last summer we drove 700 miles to my mother in law’s house with the intention of removing 40 year old brown and orange shag carpet from the basement. It covered the entire basement. We returned at Christmas to recover the floor with laminated vinyl. It looks far better.
You can’t imagine the decades of dust and decayed carpet/padding.