Sanding hard wood floors can be time consuming and a mess. Here is the best way to restore hardwood floors without sanding.
Sanding hard wood floors can be time consuming and a mess. Here is the best way to restore hardwood floors without sanding.
Learn how to fix scratches on hardwood floors effortlessly. Discover effective techniques and products to restore the beauty of your floors.
Want to revive your old hardwood floors? Here's how to refinish hardwood floors DIY style, with tips on the best tools, FAQs, and more.
Discover the nine most disastrous DIY refinishing hardwood floors mistakes I made so you don't do the same. Save time and money with these practical tips!
We’ll walk you through everything you need to know when it comes to learning how to restore hardwood floors without sanding. You’ll realize it’s surprisingly easy!
...and I'm back! I took a random week off blogging as my creativity were seriously lacking and I just couldn't get my head into gear and type the words I was trying to say. I mostly blame the chaotic environment which surrounded my PC (an overloaded lounge full of storage boxes and DIY equipment!). Being
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Welcome back for another post in my “how to” home improvement and vintage style series! Today I am going to be...
Restoring Floorboards - From Start To Finish The Ultimate Guide. Varnished wooden floors in a period house are tough in character, easy to clean, and look really attractive, which is the reason they work great in any busy family home. It is still popular to expose the floorboards instead of carpeting in many of the older houses. So restoring floorboards is a good way to go.
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We've brought our original Victorian wooden flooring and stairs back to life!
If your hardwood floors are looking dull, there's an easy way to bring them back to life. We'll show you how to rejuvenate hardwood floors.
The year is coming to a close which means we’ve been living in our little house for just over a year now. Crazy! We moved an hour west from Columbus, OH to Springfield, OH to be closer to my new office. This is our first single family house we’ve lived in and we’ve been excited to dream up and start tackling home projects. When we got the keys last December the first thing we did was start to rip up the old, thick dark gray carpet that covered the first floor of the house. The hardwood floors in the dining room were exposed and we could tell it continued into the living room under the carpet. Spencer was nervous of the condition of the floors and what scary things lay beneath the carpet… but I’m more of a “let’s just go for it and we’ll deal with whatever it is” type of person. We were both pleasantly surprised with the condition of the floors. They were stained an orange-ish red color and there were some pet and paint stains, but overall they were in great condition. We moved in that same weekend so we didn’t have time to remove the rest of the carpet in the two bedrooms, 4 closets and the hallway of the first floor. We were also busy planning our wedding so this project was put on the back burner until July. We also didn’t want to spend the money to rent a dumpster to take away the carpet all at once or have it all piled up in the garage, so we removed it room by room and set out small amounts with our weekly trash pick up. The final room to take the carpet out of was our bedroom. In order for us to remove the carpet in there, I had to remove the carpet from our finished attic and paint the floors up there to have as our bedroom (a whole other project see pictures of that here). The hardwood floors on the first floor run continuously in the same direction from room to room so if they were going to be redone they all had to be done at the same time. This is why we finally decided that we wouldn’t be refinishing the floors ourselves. We thought about this for a long time and knew it was a project we could tackle ourselves, but we are living here so packing up moving all the furniture from the first floor and learning to refinish 800 square feet of floors would be too much of an undertaking. We also decided that it’s such an impactful feature of the house that we wanted them professionally done. After I did a bunch of research on local floor refinishers we got an estimate from Leininger Hardwood Floors and we ultimately decided to go with them. They fit us into their schedule super quickly. We had to work overtime to finish removing every single staple and every piece of the quarter round trim before they started sanding. The Leininger team was efficient and communicative. They started on a Monday and they were finished by Thursday afternoon. During the week they reached out to us that they were concerned about the pet stains that were too deep to be sanded out, and suggested that we might want to go with a darker stain to cover them better. The stains were most prominent in the hallway and one of the bedrooms. Our inspiration photos we fell in love with were all of natural and light floors. We decided to chalk the stains up to character and move forward with leaving the floors their natural color! After seeing the finished floors I have no regrets. Check out the floor reveal reel! The cost ended up being $4.50 a square foot which is cheaper than new hardwood floors would be, and they’re original to the house which keeps the character of our 1940’s home intact. We did the natural wood color (so no stain) and we went with a water-based finish instead of oil-based. The water-based finish prevents the floor from yellowing over time unlike the oil-based finish and is just as durable. We are so happy with the finished results! The floors have completely changed the house and it was totally worth the investment to hire this project out. This was the first big project we had to budget for before we could start with any of the other ideas we have for this place.
