Here’s Why I’m Going To Sand My Newly Finished Floors Again

We’ve had darkish flooring in our home for nearly twelve years now. Once we purchased our home in 2013, the very first thing I did was take away the entire carpet to show the unique pink oak hardwood flooring. They have been already darkish.

After which I sanded them down and refinished them. And as soon as once more, they have been darkish.

After which 4 years later, I went even darker on the end in an effort to do away with a few of the pink. In any case, they’re pink oak flooring, so they generally tend to have pink/orange/pink undertones until steps are taken to take away these undertones.

Anyway, all of that to say that I’ve lived with darkish wood flooring now for nearly 12 years. (Will probably be 12 years this August.)

Once I determined to color the ground within the authentic visitor bed room, I went gentle and brilliant.

Once I initially completed the ground in my studio, I went gentle and brilliant with a whitewashed end.

And after I did the ultimate painted end on my studio ground, I as soon as once more went gentle and brilliant.

So my love for gentle flooring isn’t utterly out of the blue. It’s what I appear to naturally gravitate in direction of each time I really feel like I’ve the chance to do one thing completely different. And for no less than a few years now, I’ve wished that we had gentle, pure wood flooring all through our home as an alternative of the darkish stained flooring that we’ve had for nearly 12 years now. Each time I see a home with gentle pure wood flooring, I get a bit jealous and need I may have these in our home.

Nevertheless, the duty of redoing all of our flooring appeared so daunting, so I figured I used to be simply caught with darkish flooring from right here on out. I plan to dwell on this home for the remainder of my life, so I’d simply should have darkish flooring till the day I die as a result of refinishing the flooring appeared utterly unreasonable, proper?

So when it got here time to complete the flooring in our master suite suite, I didn’t even contemplate another choice. Naturally, I figured my solely possibility was to attempt to match the flooring to the remainder of the home since I’m caught with darkish stained flooring till the day I die. There aren’t any different choices at this level. So with out even contemplating some other choices or our longterm plans, I simply went with it. I purchased the stain and completed our newly put in pink oak flooring to match the remainder of the home.

These are the areas with the brand new hardwood flooring that I simply stained and polyurethaned to match the remainder of the home…

As you realize, our future plans embody turning the present kitchen into the eating room and turning the present breakfast room and pantry right into a a lot bigger kitchen than the one we presently have.

Effectively, after I get to that venture, it’s going to have an effect on the flooring. Proper now, a part of the kitchen peninsula (the half that sits on the breakfast room aspect) has no hardwood flooring beneath it due to how I needed to construct it and the order by which I did these two rooms.

So when this space is redone, new flooring must be spliced in in order that it has hardwood flooring all through.

Additionally, after I divided the unique den into two rooms — a breakfast room and pantry — I constructed the wall first after which put in the hardwood flooring round it.

That signifies that when that wall is eliminated, that hardwood flooring may even want a number of work to make it steady all through.

As soon as these repairs are made, this complete space will should be sanded down and refinished. What higher alternative to make them gentle, brilliant, and pure?

After which after that’s accomplished, the plan is to construct an addition on the again of the home. That signifies that these areas will all want new hardwood flooring that must be completed. (The toilet can have tile flooring.) It could be really easy to simply maintain them gentle and pure as properly.

So what does that depart? That mainly simply leaves the lounge and music room. And because the new eating room and kitchen should be accomplished anyway, that may be the right alternative to simply go forward and do these two rooms as properly.

However proper now, I nonetheless have the chance. This space remains to be utterly “underneath building.” We’re not dwelling in these rooms but (though we’re passing by means of to get to the lavatory), and the rooms are utterly freed from furnishings or some other hindrances.

In fact, I’ve constructed the cupboards within the closet, however I may nonetheless change course even with these cupboards in place.