Not quite at the whoa stage yet, but I just thought I'd share my progress of this little project for my summer holidays...
When we moved in our house had salmon coloured carpet throughout, and I mean throughout: including bathroom and toilet! I ripped out the carpet in the wet areas and we're making do with what's underneath at the moment: lino tiles in the toilet (fine), and yuk cement/fibro looking something-or-other in the bathroom (ugh. I'm hoping having it like this will prompt DH to give me the go ahead to re-do earlier than planned).
This summer holidays (teacher over here, summer is "house time") I'm taking on the job of ripping up the carpet in our hallway, living room and dining room areas, sanding the radiata pine underneath, staining it, and coating with satin estapol.
I'm not going for the highly polished glossy look, I like sort of rustic looking things, with a bit of texture. So when people keep telling me my dogs will scratch the floor, I want to poke them in the eye. I know this is a possibility, I'm not silly. I've had dogs all my life, I know they are capable of complete and utter destruction. But I don't really mind, ok? That is why I'm doing it myself and not paying 3k for the pro's to do it. *ahem*
So! Here are some piccies thus far, today our floor guy friend is bringing his fancy sander around for me to give it a once over (he said the floors are so good underneath the carpet they almost don't need it), then over the next couple of days I'll be staining and estapolling til the cows come home =)
Wish me luck!
Darkened area to be floorboards:
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Harley is helping:
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