Over the week of Thanksgiving, we refinished our downstairs floors: dining room, living room, school/sun room, and Rich’s office. They turned out quite well for being such old maple and I hope that comes through in the picture. We are definitely enjoying them; they feel so much cleaner. Now, on to more trim work and other stuff!
Our School Room, After:
Our Living Room, Before:
In case you were wondering, the reason you can’t see through the windows in the first picture is because we put plastic on the outside of the school/sun room for the winter. It seems such a preposterous move towards such attractive windows! But, in this big old house economy frequently trumps beauty. :^)
Comment by Anna — December 17, 2008 @ 1:46 am
The floors are BEAUTIFUL!!! You must be so pleased! They came out very, very nicely! Enjoy them!
Comment by Catherine — December 17, 2008 @ 9:04 am
VERY lovely, Anna…
Makes me feel like I want to come over and do some ballet twirls around the room….
Comment by MooMa — December 17, 2008 @ 7:11 pm
Well, if you do, Cathy, may I take a video of that and post it? :^)
That would be priceless. I already miss the acoustics in the downstairs now that the furniture is back in place. We were singing and dancing up a storm between the time we cleaned the furniture out and the staining began.
Comment by Anna — December 17, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
Wow!!! I love all those windows!!! And the floor looks awesome :o)
Comment by Hannah — December 18, 2008 @ 4:08 pm