Refinishing the floors

I thought it was going to be easy finding someone to do our floors but again to my surprise, things aren't as easy as they sound. We had estimates all over the place, and all sorts of people. It's a bit nerve racking to make sure your picking the right person. Finding a person that you trust and will do a good job is really hard. Overall, I think we found a good guy and looking forward to seeing what our new floors are going to look like! We stopped by to do a little work downstairs and move in a few more boxes. So far, all the patches are done and the floors are looking really good once sanded down.







Time to pick a stain!

Pulling up carpets!

I'm working a bit backwards here but I just got this blog up so it's time to play catchup. Like I said in the last post, we had to pull up all carpets in the house because we knew there were original red oak floors lying beneath. What we didn't know was how good of shape they were in. The previous owner had a cat and the house smelled like urine which is a bad sign for wood floors.


To our surprise the floors actually looked really good as they were. It looks like it was probably the original finish from when the house was made back in 1964! There were a few scratches and a couple places that needed some patching but nothing too major.



Next, the fun process of finding someone to refinish our floors!

First updates.....

This is our first post, and a lot has happened so far. Last week we FINALLY got to take over our house. Since then we have been in every night taking care of the little things we want before moving. Well, the little stuff was a little more work that we had thought. Removing popcorn ceilings, resurfacing, tearing out all carpet, removing mold, etc. It's been an interesting beginning especially cause we are learning on the fly. More to catch up on soon.....