I’m quite excited.  After owning the house for 3 years and dealing with the worn and faded 60+ year old wood floors in our house, we are finally ready to get these bad boys refinished.  And I couldn’t be happier.  The original owners of our home had beautiful wood floors throughout the entire house and in the mid 70′s did well, a 70′s style makeover and carpeted the entire thing.  Do you people know what putting carpet over wood flooring does after 20 years?  It dries the floors out and wears off any prayer of having any kind of finish left when you pull up the carpet.  That is exactly what happened to ours.

Yesterday Derek met with a man to get an estimate on refinishing our floors and replacing the plywood that now is nailed into the holes where the two floor furnaces used to sit.  FINALLY!  I am so thankful for someone being able to do this for us.  Wrigley and her nutso-ness didn’t allow for us to keep a carpet over one of the two plywood covered holes.  She made certain everyday that the rug would be NOT over the hole by the end of the day.

The guy mentioned to Derek that most wood floors can only be refinished about six times in their lifetime.  They way ours looked and judging by the age of our house I was certain that we had to be on refinish #4…at least!  Well, that is SO NOT the case.  This will be the first time, count it…1st time, these poor little splintery things will have the life breathed back into them.  My poor little neglected floors.  I forgot the best part.  We are getting 3 rooms, 1 hallway, and 2 rebuilds for only $1700.00.  Yipee!!!

Derek and I love, love, love dark wood so true to form the first stain that came to mind was a deep chocolaty color for the floors.  I would love to have espresso stained floors.  Kind of like this…

Or this…

And as luck would have it, I just put up the Christmas decorations & tree that now all have to be taken right back down.  THAT’S GONNA BE FUN!

We’ll be spending the remainder of the weekend covering every square inch of the house in plastic tarps.  Taping plastic here, shoving towels in crack there…JOY!  See we just ordered a new couch.  My dream came true!  Oh, wait, that’s right!  I haven’t told ya’ll yet.  WE BOUGHT A NEW COUCH.  This couch is absurdly comfy.  It’s the PB Comfort from Pottery Barn.  We are normally PB Outlet nerds, but this time we made a purchase from a regular PB store.  Yes, we think we are super fancy now.

If we weren’t two of the biggest couch potatoes already this will assure that we never get up and exercise AGAIN.  I’m cool with that…exercise is overrated anyhow.

Since Pottery Barn does a white glove delivery of their furniture we would like to have the floors refinished so that we don’t have to move the brand spanking new couch and squeeze it into another already over crowded room of the house and risk damaging this brand new couch.  I know I would like at least one possibly even two weeks with a couch that doesn’t look something like this…

New Couch…meet our Old Couch

I have to admit I was a tad nervous about how the dark floors would look with our lawn green walls, but after seeing this room from Canadian House & Home; I think it’s going to be spectacular.

The only way we can go is up.

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