Sanding the Living Room Floor

Once all the carpet was taken up in the living room we rented (yet again) the industrial sander.
Here are the before pics:

The floor isn't in bad shape, but there were a number of paint spills.
Here are the after pics:

 

Now all of the holes need wood filler, the cracks need picked out and it will be ready for the stain and polyurethane (3 coats each).

Holy Floor Seams

Several weeks ago we took up the majority of the carpet in the dining room and declared it in good shape. This weekend we took up the rest of the carpet and found a whole lot of unexpected floor seams and hacked up, pieced together wood. We're not exactly sure what the matching chunks out of either side of the bay window used to be. But the seam is uneven enough that we're going to have to have another go around with the industrial sander, which we were all hoping to avoid.

Entryway Flooring

While we were sanding the kitchen floor we also decided to go ahead and do the entryway floor. The goal is to have all the wood floors be at least close to the same color throughout. It has now been stained a nice mahogany to match the kitchen floor. It needs several coats of polyurethane and then it will be all done!

Freshly sanded and stained 'After'

And here is the 'Before' color