Thursday, November 5, 2009

Old Hardwood Floors

The original hardwood floors were in pretty good shape on the second storey.  We decided to get them refinished so we protected the floors with paper before we started the demolition.

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Once the drywall was finished, we hired Tip Top Flooring to refinish the floors, stairs and railing.  (Thanks to Maggie and Rob at Okay, Now What? for the referral!)

We knew that we wanted to go darker than what was originally there, but selecting the stain colour was a lot harder than we had anticipated.  After hours of staring at samples and changing our minds a couple of times, we settled on Early American.

IMG_2418 IMG_2416 IMG_2422 IMG_2426Given that the floors, stairs and railing are three different types of wood, we weren’t sure how they would turn out.  Fortunately, the colour was a good choice and we’re really happy with the results.

6 comments:

Sara @ Russet Street Reno said...

Very nice choice!!

Anonymous said...

Hey guys! Glad to hear everything is working out. Picking the colour was hard for us too. They did a custom blend of ebony and coffee for our floors. Definitely try your best to stay off the floors for as long as possible. A week if you can. We had to move in after 4 days and as carful as we were there were a few marks in the finish.

Katie said...

love the color choice, looks great!

diver2anne said...

looks just great!

Sharon said...

Love the colour ... they look wonderful.

antique wood flooring said...

Great article....!!!Nice to know about new things with helping concept.

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