(You can scroll down to last Monday's post and see the same photo angle as above showing the "before" floor)
Monday, May 23, 2011
We're Floored!
The dining room floor is revealed! After filling two mugs to the brim with nails and producing a large scrap pile of vinyl, linoleum, and paneling on the porch, we are down to beautiful bare wood. The coloring is very uneven due to wear, sun, and finish differences, but other than the mysterious dark spot, the floor is in very fine shape. A light sanding and new protective coat should be all that is needed. Thanks to my darling husband ("the nail whisperer"), we knocked this project out in just a few sessions. Now it's on to the kitchen, which appears to have all the same layers plus an additional sheet of linoleum or two directly on the wood!
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It's beautiful! How exciting to find a treasure like that underneath all the layers.
ReplyDeleteIt was a bit like digging for buried treasure!
ReplyDeleteVery nice! So, you all ARE buying the little farm house? I think I must have missed that part - oops!
ReplyDeleteAnna, you didn't miss anything. The purchase is still dependent on selling our house (which hasn't happened to date). But since we know the owners and the house is in such bad shape, he said we couldn't possibly lower the value and to start doing any work we wanted to it.
ReplyDeleteSo we are investing "sweat equity", not money, at this point. Even if the house is never ours, I'm glad we get the opportunity to explore and reveal some of her beauty!