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Holy cow guys. I feel like I might finally be able to sleep tonight after weeks & weeks of trying to decide what we should do with our new pine flooring. So if you remember a few months ago we made the decision to install 8 inch pine boards into our house. Well, that was an easy decision... & I thought deciding whether to paint or stain would be easy as well. No. No it wasn't. I completely locked up & didn't know what to do because I loved painted & stained floors equally. So, I asked you guys ...
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I’ve rewritten this blog post over and over again in my head. In short, this is a very mixed review on our painted wood floors. It’s been a year since we’ve painted them and I’ve collected all of your questions from over on Instagram into an FAQ section below. Here’s the blog post on How We Painted
The floors in our front living room & the dining room are stained!! Can you believe it? We started Friday night & after working all weekend we finally finished them up Sunday morning. & man it felt good! We have yet to seal the flooring, but we will be doing that soon & I'll be sharing that process with you then. For now I wanted to share our flooring so far & how we got here... We started by laying 8 inch pine planks in our front living room, dining room, kitchen, & sunroom area . The lumber was purchased
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