The next time I decide to refurbish a floor on a deadline while working full time and pursing a master’s degree, just shoot me dead and put me out of my own misery. Thank god for husbands. Two layers of stain. We had to apply the stain with a rag because when we tried a…

It was nice to take a break from floors for a few days and written on the walls and ceilings. But John and I are incapable of picking a color for our bedroom right now so attention has to shift back to the floors. First, the edges were stripped of paint but they needed to…

In which I spend an entire post talking about one crack in the floor.

Mondays suck. I was tired before I started. Edging sucks more. Sanding for 48 hours with the drum sander wasn’t exactly fun, but at least you get these super awesome before and after pictures. Edging is twice as tedious and the payoff isn’t nearly as awesome. Here is the edge leftover from the drum. The…

  Hours of heat gun and scraping brought us here.  It doesn’t look great, but it’s much better. Most of the gunk is gone. First Insley and then John spent hours pulling staples, tacks, and nails out of the stairs. Meanwhile, I started stripping. Hours and hours, John and I working I shifts. Which brought…

Today was open house at my school so I got lots of hugs from my students who a all grew a foot over the summer. I rushed home after to scarf down a dinner if two kinds of pasta (we are “cleaning” out the pantry in prep for moving.) Then Insley and I set off…