floors

my quiet-loving, clean husband does not always love city dwelling in an old house, but here we are for now. and we like this 112 year old house better when we are working on it, bringing back some of its original beauty. a few weeks ago, he spontaneously said "i want to start refinishing the upstairs floors. tomorrow." and so it began. we just did the kids room this time since we don't know what we are doing really, but will probably do the rest of the upstairs eventually as the carpet is beginning to age.  again, this is no home-decor blog, but i like to keep my fam in the loop and i'm super proud of adam's hard work!

we started pulling things out before we took the 'before' pictures

we found heavily painted and varnished floors underneath

sanded for two days straight

the original heart-pine had a pretty natural color, but we decided to stain it to match some of the other floors (thanks nicole for the advice!)

and we repainted gray.  marit has my knock-knees:)

one of these days this will be a boys room, but for now marit and graham love sharing

adam wants to build bunkbeds next.  the man loves projects...