Wood Flooring update...pics

[mammabooh]

Here's a link to the thread for which this is an update...
Delighted beyond belief...wood flooring

For those of you who followed my thread about our wood flooring a while back, here are some pictures. One is of the wood before we stained it and the other is after the stain and first coat of polyurathane.



I simply love it! In addition to all of the wood from my father-in-law, we also had some boards that were previously (for the last 100 years or so) used as flooring planks in our attic. We tore them out a few months ago (they weren't attached, they were just loose on the floor) and were going to use them as siding for our new chicken coop. However, my husband decided to run one of them through the planer and found that they are beautiful maple. One of them is now my favorite board in the bathroom!

[mellba]

The floor is beautiful.

[Wolf mom]

Georgeous!

I lust!

[grannygardner]

Your floor is beautiful. I love the variation in color.

[AngieM2]

That's really beautiful. HGTV could not better that.
You are doing so nicely.

[luvrulz]

Simply beateous!

[Kmac15]

Awesome job, you guys should be very proud.

[patience]

Beautiful! I love all the different woods.

[Quiver0f10]

beautiful!

[soulsurvivor]

That's a very beautiful wood floor. Give yourselves a pat on the back for a job well done!

[salmonslayer]

Looks great, you used materials with a family connection and did it yourself...must be a great feeling.

[Ravenlost]

Oh, I love it!

[mammabooh]

Thanks, Everyone!

I forgot to mention that most of the boards had not been planed and jointed...Hubby thought they were after talking to his dad, but that wasn't the case. So, we've spent hours running them through. That's ok, though, now I have bags and bags of shavings that I will use for bedding in the chicken coop!

My husband put the second coat of poly down yesterday and will do one more coat tomorrow. We ordered our vanity top and faucet two weeks ago, so it should be in soon. When we get and install them, we'll just have to install the toilet and do some final things with the shower plumbing. Then, we will transition to using the new bathroom and proceed to tear out the old one. I'm very excited! The current bathroom was added in 1953 and is in the kitchen. They didn't want to add on to the house, so they just built two walls in the corner of the kitchen and put the bathroom in there. UGH. So, when we get that torn out, we'll have a MUCH bigger kitchen (it's getting an overhaul too).

We'll be using the wood flooring in the hallway and mudroom/laundry room area, so we still have lots of work ahead of us.

[woodsy]

Very nice looking custom floor !

[Jenn]

Beautiful! Mine is finished (not by me- Bless You!) and when I was waxing ecstatic on the phone to dear Mom as it went in she joked about my excitement saying "I sure hope you wait until the workers go home and kids go to bed before you roll around nekkid on your gorgeous new floor!" Ours is more boring than yours though.