Y’all are going to suppose I’ve misplaced my thoughts, and perhaps I’ve. After I instructed my mother of my potential plans, she undoubtedly gave me that “you’ve misplaced your thoughts” look. However I’m strongly contemplating sanding our bed room suite flooring down once more. Now earlier than you freak out, let me state my case.
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 all the carpet to reveal the unique crimson oak hardwood flooring. They had been already darkish.
After which I sanded them down and refinished them. And as soon as once more, they had been darkish.
After which 4 years later, I went even darker on the end in an effort to do away with among the crimson. In any case, they’re crimson oak flooring, so they tend to have crimson/orange/pink undertones except steps are taken to take away these undertones.
Anyway, all of that to say that I’ve lived with darkish wooden floors now for nearly 12 years. (It is going to be 12 years this August.)
I don’t dislike darkish wooden floors. In actual fact, I actually have preferred having darkish stained flooring. However during the last couple of years, I’ve discovered myself being drawn to lighter, brighter, pure wooden floors increasingly more. In actual fact, they don’t even must be a pure wooden coloration. I’ve simply tended in direction of lighter flooring basically. You’ll discover that each time I’ve the chance to do one thing totally different, I’m going gentle and shiny.
After I determined to color the ground within the unique visitor bed room, I went gentle and shiny.
After I initially completed the ground in my studio, I went gentle and shiny with a whitewashed end.
And once I did the ultimate painted end on my studio flooring, I as soon as once more went gentle and shiny.
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 totally different. And for at the least a few years now, I’ve wished that we had gentle, pure wooden floors 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 wooden floors, I get somewhat jealous and want I may have these in our home.
Nonetheless, 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 reside on this home for the remainder of my life, so I’d simply must 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 main bedroom 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 another choices or our longterm plans, I simply went with it. I purchased the stain and completed our newly put in crimson 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…
However during the last week or two, I started to appreciate what a large alternative I missed. Had I assumed it by means of, I’d have realized that this was my alternative to go gentle, shiny, and pure with our hardwood flooring. Sure, it must be achieved in piecemeal trend, however this was it, and I missed it. Let me clarify.
As you recognize, 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 at present have.
Nicely, once I get to that undertaking, 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 facet) has no hardwood flooring beneath it due to how I needed to construct it and the order wherein I did these two rooms.
So when this space is redone, new flooring should be spliced in in order that it has hardwood flooring all through.
Additionally, once 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 implies that when that wall is eliminated, that hardwood flooring will even want numerous 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, shiny, and pure?
After which after that’s achieved, the plan is to construct an addition on the again of the home. That implies that these areas will all want new hardwood flooring that must be completed. (The toilet can have tile flooring.) It will be really easy to only maintain them gentle and pure as properly.
So what does that go away? That mainly simply leaves the lounge and music room. And for the reason that new eating room and kitchen must be achieved anyway, that might be the proper alternative to only go forward and do these two rooms as properly.
So during the last week-and-a-half, I’ve been beating myself up for lacking this chance. I initially thought I had handed the purpose of no return, so I simply cast forward on my closet and tried to place it out of my thoughts. However over the previous couple of days, I’ve realized that I haven’t precisely handed the purpose of no return. The purpose of no return could be as soon as I end the bed room, replenish the bed room suite with our new furnishings, and get us absolutely moved into the brand new bed room. As soon as all the things is moved in and Matt is settled in, that could be the purpose of no return. If I don’t course appropriate earlier than that time, then I actually am locked into having darkish stained flooring till the day I die.
However proper now, I nonetheless have the chance. This space remains to be utterly “underneath development.” We’re not residing in these rooms but (though we’re passing by means of to get to the toilet), and the rooms are utterly freed from furnishings or another hindrances.
In fact, I’ve constructed the cupboards within the closet, however I may nonetheless change course even with these cupboards in place.
So my alternative is now, and it’s both now or by no means. And I feel I wish to take the chance. After I take a look at our hardwood flooring in the remainder of the home — the flooring which have been stained and lived on since 2017 — I can see some put on and tear on the end within the excessive site visitors areas. So darkish stained finishes don’t final without end, and so they’re tougher to restore. A light-weight, shiny, pure wooden with only a clear coat could be a lot simpler to restore and maintain trying good for the lengthy haul.
I feel I’m going to do it. I want I had considered this a month in the past, and I want I had thought it by means of extra totally earlier than simply deciding that I used to be caught with darkish stained flooring for the remainder of my life. But when my selection is now or by no means, I’d reasonably select now. I’d reasonably select a little bit of problem and inconvenience now than be caught with one thing without end as a result of I didn’t take my alternative to course appropriate once I had the prospect.
(I notice I’m penning this publish on April 1st. I’ll allow you to resolve in case you suppose I’m joking or not. However simply consider, once I reworked our kitchen again in 2014, I refinished that flooring 3 times over the course of that rework. 😀 So in case you’ve been round right here some time, and also you’re a betting particular person, I’d recommend placing your cash on “not joking”.)
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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