Refinishing the Floors

Over the long Easter weekend, me and my parents decided to under take the task of refinishing the hardwood floors in my house. My Father did the sanding, my mother performed the clean up and mopping and I took care of staining and polyurethane the floors. So far I have only added one coat of poly because it takes 4 hours to dry and I started at 8:00 tonight. So here are some before, during, and after shots.

Before:

The Living Room

The Gray Room

During:

The gray room

The hallway

The Living room

The hallway

the Living room

The dining room

First coat of poly:

The Living room

The dining room

The Dining room

The hallway

The hallway

Living Room

As you can see or DIY floor refinishing did not remove all of the black spots from years of ground in dirt and carpet powder. But I believe that there is a rustic quality to the floors and that makes them ok by me.

Going to put another coat of poly on the living room, dining room, gray room, and hallway tomorrow. I'm supposed to sand between coats but not sure if I'm going to be able to. Might just give them a general scuffing with the orbital sander and the fine grit paper.

OK.. enough for tonight. I'm headed to bed I have work in the morning.

Hope you enjoyed your Easter weekend.

Redoing the Hardwood Floors

So there are hardwood floors under that atrocious blue carpet that we pulled out a week after I closed on the house ( had to wait on Trash day, I couldn't afford a dumpster ;-) ). But the floors were seriously cruddy from dirt and carpet powder seeping through the carpet pad for the last oh 20-30 years.
Seriously people, if you are going to have carpet in your home do not use carpet powder. When you steam clean the carpet that powder gets wet and flows right through the carpet pad to the floor, making things harder for people like myself with allergies and sinusitis who come along after you and pull all that nasty carpet out.
So yesterday my father came over to the house with his little tools to see if he could do the floors. Of course this was an overly inadequate solution but we were able to see the potential so today I am off to rent a commercial sander and begin the process of sanding down my floors so they can be refinished.
Sorry this post doesn't have before pictures I am at work, so no uploading for me. Will try to add some later.

Hoarders

No, your eyes aren't deceiving you.... do not report me to Hoarders! I'm just in the process of getting my new home together and I have been neglecting my current room. This mountain of clothes has been growing and I thought I should take a picture of it before I began tackling the pile. So yes the pile is now gone and I am still working at getting to a point where I can began to move some of these clothes into my new home.

So again... I am not a hoarder... I just haven't been cleaning here because I have been cleaning and painting at my new house. Definitely not a perfect person.

I've Gone and Done It

I have done it. I have bought my first house and I can honestly say that it is the best thing I have ever done.

Unfortunately my house was a foreclosure, I say unfortunate because someone else lost their dream home in order for me to be able to purchase it. After my contract was accepted I looked online and found a site that still showed where the house was listed by the previous owners prior to the foreclosure. I really believe that the reason the house didn't sell was because of the general condition of the house. The home had not been updated since the 70's or prior. This showed in the picture posted in the MLS listing.

So this blog will be about my journey into decorating and living in my first home, with a little bit of my life

thrown in for spice.

Welcome along for the ride!