Hardwood flooring still in process!

We are still working on getting the hardwood flooring installed in our kitchen. It has been a long, yet rewarding process. I really think this is because you can "see" your progress! You work and work, and it takes forever--yet line by line, you see your efforts paying off!! I have run into a couple of design issues. The island that was in the kitchen originally was modified by the PO. BLEH! Although it has solid oak doors just like the cabinets, the sides and back were faux oak. Over this, the PO secured cabinet grade plywood, but didn't do a very good job of it. It was stained by the PO in an effort to match the oak doors, but ALAS-- PO was obviously color blind! I painted the sides and back, then decided to just get rid of it. I drug it out into the garage, bought a lovely, distressed, furniture style kitchen island, and installed it. Now, I am thinking of taking that back to the store, and re-working the original island. WHEW! Also, back to the hardwood-- upon removing the original island in order to place flooring under it, we discovered a random collection of LIVE WIRES-- hanging out of a box, yet unattached to an outlet--and with NO wire nuts. Any slight brush against them would have resulted in an unpleasant jolt for sure! In an effort to properly wire in an outlet, we shut the power off and began to test the wires. PO strikes again! We realized that the standard house wires had been spliced and driven up through a hole in the kitchen floor (the second hole, actually-- PO's first hole ran him into a joist, so he just moved over and drilled another hole) in an attempt to install an outlet under the island. Because of this odd splice, we HAD to immediately rewire the outlet, or the fridge wouldn't work. PO just stuck random wires, outlets, plugs, and breakers wherever the Spirit moved him to do so! Fire hazard creatin' fool!