After Photos of the Floors

Overall I am pleased with the floors. The floors seem to have a yellow tint, which was sort of expected. I am happy that we went with the oil. They definitley have more depth than if they were just white maple floors with water based. I can't complain. Wait, I can complain. The contractor left some chips in my stairs that we just refinished and he also blew a fuse in the kitchen that we just can't seem to correct. Do I have any recourse? I plan on talking to him about these issues tomorrow before paying him. Other than the mess they left I am happy with the floors. So, are you ready???

Here are my refinished maple floors.

Office:


Sorry for the neck cramp. The water damage cleaned up nicely, didn't it?

Hallway:

I can't wait to show you the photos with my antique bronze grate- it's going to look great! haha


Guest room:

This has to be the best transformation. He did a great job with the patch work. I can't even tell.



It will be nice to sleep in my own bed again. The fumes have been too strong to stay in the house. It will be great to get back to normal life. I'll just have beautiful floors now. =)

A great anniversary present

We have offically owned our home for 1 year as of 01/03/09! I couldn't think of a better way for us to treat ourselves and our accomplishments than to have someone else sand and redo the upstairs floors. We have the ceiling in the guest room completely patched. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time to tape and mud the ceiling. The walls just need 1 more coat of mud and some killz before we paint. I can't believe we are almost finished with the guest room. That room was one of the ugliest things I had ever seen in my life and I thought it would be years before we got to that room.

Here are our lovely sheet rocked ceilings. We're getting pretty good at this.


It's a little tricky sheetrocking coved ceilings.

So as I type this they are working on my floors. I am so excited to see them when I get home- I just can't wait. I am posting before photos and will be posting afters on Thursday so make sure to check back.

Guest room Floors:



Beneath all of that dirt is a lovely shade of orange.

Office:


These floors have to be the worst due to the water damamge shown above. The wood almost buckles from water damage.


The Hall:



I'll keep you posted. =)

Oy Gevalt

We are racing around the clock to finish hanging a new sheet rocked ceiling, scrape wall paper and dismantle the closet in the guest bedroom. Next Monday we are getting our upstairs floors professionally sanded! We will be doing the guest bedroom, office and hallway. I found the contractor through another blogger on here. His prices are very inexpensive and he's the only person I've met yet who I'd trust in my house without me being there.

It will be nice to walk on the floors without having my feet feel dirty even after I've just washed the floors. We were planning on sanding the floors ourselves but I'm going to leave this one to the pros. We have quite a few repairs that need to be done on the floors and I just want it done correctly. I just don't want another large dreadful project. Luckily he will be able to have the floors done within 3 days.

I also ordered 2 new roller shades for the dining room. Who knew shades could be so expensive? I spent $286 on two of them- custom of course, and that's the best price I found. They are going to look really great! I can't wait to get rid of our smoke yellow shades that currently adorn our windows. I guess we'll just have to get 2 at a time. I'm having trouble finding good colors in for shade fabric. Most manufacturers have limited and boring colors. =(

A little excited.

We had a fun visit with some friends last night, who are also fellow house rehabbers/ bloggers. We had been planning on paying someone to sand and redo our hardwood floors. The upstairs hall and office alone was going to cost $825. A little pricey but it needed to be done. I've never really wanted to tackle a sanding project because I've always been warned I would sand too deep and could really mess up my hard wood. After speaking with them it sounds like this is actually a project that we are going to take on. Not only will we be sanding the office and hall... We will also be resanding the living room and dining room. How ambitious, right?

The only problem is that we won't be able to put the furniture on the floors for about 7 days after sanding, which isn't much of a problem. We'll just have to fins a place to stay for a week. This is going to be a big- FUN- project. I'm excited! The hand sanding of our stairs starts either this weekend or next weekend.