Project Numero Uno - Floors

After we picked out the blue for the living room walls (from my last post), but before we painted everything blue, we set out on our first major undertaking - sanding and refinishing all the original oak floors.  By "we set out on our first major undertaking," I meant we paid someone else to do it, of course!  We spent the night in the house the day we closed and the work started the next day.  They started on a Thursday and we could get in the house and start working again the following Saturday (about 5-6 business days after beginning).

If you will remember in my first post, the house had decent floors to begin with. 

All ~2500 square feet of this house has oak floors with the exception of the laundry room (linoleum, which Trey is going to tile over eventually) and the two bathrooms (tile).  In several areas of the house the floors looked very worn and even scratched down through the original finish.  We thought the investment on the front end would not only make the interior of the house much more pleasing, but would also increase the value of the house for the future.  The guy that did it, Matthew, did a fantastic job and gave us the best price in the area even though he had to drive down from Birmingham to do the work.  If anyone needs their floors done in the Birmingham area, we highly recommend him and would be happy to give you his contact info.

So, here is a shot of what it looked like once he finished.

We went with MinWax English Chestnut for the stain and LOVED the color.  They turned out a little darker and a little redder than our original floors and we could not be happier with the results!