We were prepared for our dining room floor to be in pretty bad condition under all the layers of plywood and MDF. But they’re not! The final layer was NOT glued down, like it was in other rooms.
To give you an idea of what we were prepared for, here is what our living room floor looked like when we uncovered it 4 years ago:
Big, ugly plywood squares and layers and layers of paint, varnish, and drops of drywall mud. So we were very happily surprised to find that our dining room floor looked like this:
See all the nail holes? Pulling all those out was not fun. But, after several days of walking on the floors, the holes are getting less noticeable, which is what we were hoping for. It is funny when the basement light is on at night though, it looks like you’re standing on a starry sky.
There’s just a little bit of stain and varnish around the edges of the room, but I’ll just sand it down with my hand-held sander. It’s nothing like what was in the living room.
We still have a little bit of the last layer to pull up, and then I’ll show you the whole room.
Hooray! It’s Christmas in May! How wonderful. I love the starry sky effect–what a great feature. I love tht colour of the wood, too. So soft and gentle and aged–reminds me of my Grandmother’s grey hair.
The color is my favorite part too. And that’s such an interesting analogy, it’s one that I thought of not too long ago while working on the house. The aged, character-filled look is beautiful to me–in houses and people. I’ve always thought people looked better with wrinkles and gray hair.
It looks like it’s going amazing! And who wouldn’t want to walk on starry skies?
We’ll just pretend it was meant to be that way. 🙂
Great news! I’m happy for you, you will be faster with the before and after post 🙂
Thank you! I hope so. 🙂
Well I’m glad the floor gods decided to cut you a break in the dining room!
(umm. that was me that just went noted as “anonymous” lol)
Ha 🙂 Thanks, Santa.