Drywall? Check! Floors? Check!

Here is a quick catch-up from the past week's worth of work. We completed so much, and here's the lowdown...

The drywall guys finished up their work:

I suppose it only looks impressive if you saw the previous house pictures and notice not that there are no holes, and the walls are in shape. This was a natural step before painting. But before painting, we had to refinish the floors. Why, you ask? We wanted to finish the floors so that there was no activity to generate a tremendous amount of dust that would settle on the new paint if we had painted before. So, I hope you took a good look at what the floors did look like, because here are pics of the floors being refinished. We saved and refinished the original oak floor in the living and dining rooms, and laid new oak flooring in the kitchen and bedrooms.

You can see the difference in this picture between the old dark stain, and the gorgeous light oak underneath it. For many reasons it wasn't practical to stain and seal the newly refinished floor this light, but we really appreciated it when we saw its natural beauty revealed.

This final picture shows you the stain that we chose for the floors - it's a medium coffee brown stain. It looks amazing because it shows the natural variations in the floor.

All this work was to prepare for the painting party! Andy and Jessica spent two days priming and protecting the floors so that the friendly crews could come in and just start painting (as seen by a previous post - Andy priming). We worked for four days straight, and we estimate three more days of work. Here we go!