Refinishing Our Wood Floors

After we bought our house, we replaced all the carpeting on the first and second floors with oak hardwood.  It's been over twenty years.  The oil based polyurethane has turned more orange and has been worn down in high traffic areas like the kitchen.   

It was a lot of effort on our part since we needed to move all the furnishings out of the rooms being refinished.  We managed to do the refinishing in sections, since there were "hard" dividers.  The kitchen was done first.   A year later, we did the dining room and living room.   We did the great room, master bedroom, and steps to the second floor six months later to complete the first floor.  For the kitchen, dining room and living room, we moved the furnishings ourselves to the great room.   For the great room and master bedroom, we hired a moving company to place the furnishings in the dining room, living room and master bathroom.

The refinishing makes us feel like we are in a new house.   In addition, we have purchased a new flat screen TV,  electronics console, and are getting a new couch.   We've move the current leather couch to the basement for use as a recreation area.

This continues our work in progress to make this house our forever home.

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