Here’s Why I’m Going To Sand My Newly Finished Floors Again

We’ve had darkish flooring in our home for nearly twelve years now. After we purchased our home in 2013, the very first thing I did was take away the entire carpet to reveal the unique purple oak hardwood flooring. They have been already darkish.

After which I sanded them down and refinished them. And as soon as once more, they have been darkish.

After which 4 years later, I went even darker on the end in an effort to do away with a few of the purple. In any case, they’re purple oak flooring, so they tend to have purple/orange/pink undertones until steps are taken to take away these undertones.

Anyway, all of that to say that I’ve lived with darkish wood flooring now for nearly 12 years. (It will likely be 12 years this August.)

Once I determined to color the ground within the authentic visitor bed room, I went mild and vibrant.

Once I initially completed the ground in my studio, I went mild and vibrant with a whitewashed end.

And once I did the ultimate painted end on my studio ground, I as soon as once more went mild and vibrant.

So my love for mild 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 mild, pure wood flooring 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 mild pure wood flooring, I get slightly jealous and need 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 dwell on this home for the remainder of my life, so I’d simply should 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 take into account an alternative choice. Naturally, I figured my solely choice 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 every other choices or our longterm plans, I simply went with it. I purchased the stain and completed our newly put in purple 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…

As you understand, 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 the moment have.

Nicely, once I get to that venture, 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 aspect) has no hardwood flooring beneath it due to how I needed to construct it and the order through which 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 may even want a number of work to make it steady all through.

As soon as these repairs are made, this entire space will should be sanded down and refinished. What higher alternative to make them mild, vibrant, 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 may have tile flooring.) It might be really easy to simply maintain them mild and pure as effectively.

So what does that go away? That mainly simply leaves the lounge and music room. And because the new eating room and kitchen should be achieved anyway, that might be the right alternative to simply go forward and do these two rooms as effectively.

However proper now, I nonetheless have the chance. This space continues to be utterly “below development.” We’re not dwelling in these rooms but (though we’re passing by to get to the lavatory), and the rooms are utterly freed from furnishings or every other hindrances.

After all, I’ve constructed the cupboards within the closet, however I may nonetheless change course even with these cupboards in place.