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July 7, 2015 · 3 Comments

Refinishing 100 Year Old Floors

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Several months ago I told you about the romantic weekend My Better Half and I had that turned into a major project weekend.

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The weekend alone and a little too much home improvement tv encouraged us to tear up our old nasty carpet in the living room and see what treasure was beneath.

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The “treasure” below may be a bit debatable for some, but for us, we knew its potential!

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I’ll give you the brief version of what we did, but you can see the full post HERE.

First we sanded down the floor.  This was a CRAZY messy task that took weeks to clean up!

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It took a lot of elbow grease to get 100 years worth of stain and varnish off the floor but once that was done, I could hardly wait to get the new stain on.

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The stain is Minwax Jacobean.  We started the application by using a rag and stain.  This wasn’t giving us the coverage we wanted so we used a paint brush instead, wiping excess stain off as we went along.

 

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We applied two coats of Minwax Fast-Drying Polyurethane to seal the floor.  After finishing the floor, we had to paint the walls and add new baseboards.  The old color and baseboards needed a fresh look too!

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And the result…speaks for itself!!

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The dining room and kitchen still have the old laminate flooring.

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As you can see from this picture, the floors look really bad leading from room to room, but I’m really hoping to start the other floors in the Fall.

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But for now, I’m going to enjoy the 100 year old treasure in my living room.

Happy DIYing,

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  1. Diana Rambles says

    July 8, 2015 at 9:39 PM

    Great job! They look amazing!

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  2. amytimco says

    July 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM

    Carrie, they look amazing! The room looks so much bigger, too.

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