Refinishing pine floors

Holy cow guys. I feel like I might finally be able to sleep tonight after weeks & weeks of trying to decide what we should do with our new pine flooring. So if you remember a few months ago we made the decision to install 8 inch pine boards into our house. Well, that was an easy decision... & I thought deciding whether to paint or stain would be easy as well. No. No it wasn't. I completely locked up & didn't know what to do because I loved painted & stained floors equally. So, I asked you…

Historic houses are having wood floors ripped out, or trashed in any number of ways to make room for newer, inferior products. But there is a better way.

Last week we gave you a rundown of our progress in bringing our first floor bathroom's antique heart pine flooring back to life.It had been hidden beneath poorly installed tile for many years, so we knew there'd be some repair necessary. The end result was a floor that needed to be heavily repaired with new heart pine, some serious tar that needed to be removed from the old flooring, and the need for a whole lot of sanding. Our last post left off just before sanding some DIY wood filler…

For 20 years I lived with orange pine floors that I hated. Finally, when it was time to refinish them I researched everything I could to combat the orange and succeeded! Here's a step by step guide on how to refinish pine floors to enhance their natural beauty - not their orange!

You may or may not remember that we took a different route when finishing our wood floors in our home. Instead of installing pre-finished floors or using polyurethane, we chose to finish unfinished yellow pine with pure tung oil. And in the two years we've been living with these floors, we have received hundreds of questions about how they are holding up. I guess we aren't the only ones who are interested in this beautiful, natural, nontoxic finish.

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How we stained, finished and installed our new pine flooring in our renovation. #flooring #pinefloors #diy

A DIY tutorial on refinishing pine floors. Embrace the natural pine wood, remove stain and polyurethane while refinishing your pine floors.

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Sharing the story of refinishing my upstairs hardwood floors as well as my process for choosing a hardwood floor stain color.