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[outhereontheprairie]

Came home to find the office floor finally done! It’s only taken half the summer 😂 Now onto the hallway and staircase! Because the work never ends 🛠 #outhereontheprairie #oldhouses #woodfloors #woodfloorrefinishing #houserestoration #woodfloor #floorstaining #floorstain #woodfloorstain #oldhouse #realwoodfloors (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE8USBUA7Y-/?igshid=u0g474p9l7hz

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Wood floor sanding and staining in Tewksbury

Client in Tewksbury attempted to sand and stain her own floors! OHHHHHH NOOOOOOO!!!  Let’s just say she has a new found respect for Mark’s Master Service and their floor sanding and staining skills!  #TewksburyMA #woodfloorsanding #woodfloorstaining Read the full article

[outhereontheprairie]

And with that...the floors are finally done in one room! We have moved all the stuff back into it plus more because now it’s time to do another bedroom and the hallway. The carpet tear out happens tomorrow. Tonight I have to get all my stuff out of it and fit it into the tiny space we have. And this will be tough because it’s all my clothes and shoes etc. so I’ll truly be living in and around this mess now. I don’t do well with that kind of thing but tough cookies because that’s house restoration life. All the more incentive to get it done, I suppose! And get it right this time. No more messing up on the floors! I’ll stain them entirely by hand if I have to - and I plan to do just that, actually. Anyway. One bedroom down, two bedrooms and a hallway and a staircase to go. 🏡 #outhereontheprairie #oldhouses #woodfloors #woodfloorrefinishing #houserestoration #woodfloor #floorstaining #floorstain #woodfloorstain #oldhouse #realwoodfloors (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_bHExwnUIy/?igshid=6wptzzbfew1

[outhereontheprairie]

Oh we are having such a discouraging day. The floor dried terribly - it looks worse than this in person. It’s horrid. Stain is not like paint, I am learning. One more coat won’t hide the issues. And there are many, many issues. We can’t sand it all down and start again, we have way too much else to do. And frankly I don’t think we could stand it. How can you fix something like this? If anyone has any ideas what we did wrong and what we can do to fix this floor...please let me know. It feels entirely hopeless at this point. 😣 #outhereontheprairie #oldhouses #woodfloors #woodfloorrefinishing #houserestoration #woodfloor #floorstaining #floorstain #woodfloorstain (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-xTG5pAF_n/?igshid=cgdiaw1ngvxg

[outhereontheprairie]

Floor update: it’s better. Not perfect, but better. I appreciate those of you who took the time to share possible solutions! Here’s what we did after that first disastrous stain-job. We sanded down the uneven darker parts. Which only kind of helped. And then it was all me. 👩🏻‍🎨 I meticulously re-stained the entire floor by hand taking the time to blend it and try and disguise the uneven first coat. Did it totally work? No. But it mostly did. So it’s better than it was! Still not thrilled with it but I require perfection so I’m hard to please. Something else - why is the stain so orange? (Especially considering I dislike that color and prefer browner stains.) It’s because we had to match it to the 100+ year old trim which has a very orange hue. At this point...whatever. 🙄 I just can’t wait for this endless project to be done. After this room we have 2 more bedrooms, one hallway and...a staircase which I’m dreading. Wish us luck! 🤞🏻 #outhereontheprairie #oldhouses #woodfloors #woodfloorrefinishing #houserestoration #woodfloor #floorstaining #floorstain #woodfloorstain (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-8QUCbA4T1/?igshid=pqpgrpqy73yg

[outhereontheprairie]

Time to work on the trim! We haven’t yet decided whether we will restore the original, super thick trim - it needs it, but not super badly. If you zoom in and look at it, you’ll see a light line where the floor meets that original trim - that’s where we took out some small trim that was damaged. We will restore what we can and put new stuff in for the rest. Today I also went over the entire floor lightly with steel wool and then a wet towel to clean. A finishing technique husband learned from someone he knew who put in fancy wooden gym floors. Is it done? Nope. But I feel we are getting close. Is it as perfect as I wanted? Nope. But I still have two more rooms and a hallway and a staircase on which to do better. Home stretch 🤞🏻 🏡 #outhereontheprairie #oldhouses #woodfloors #woodfloorrefinishing #houserestoration #woodfloor #floorstaining #floorstain #woodfloorstain (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Be54lggRq/?igshid=fj9tqfqlkt3e

[outhereontheprairie]

Aaand...first coat. Done. I cut in the edges and closets by hand and did the rest of this bad boy with this cool mop thing! Who knew?! Makes things a lot faster! 🙌🏻 #outhereontheprairie #oldhouses #woodfloors #woodfloorrefinishing #houserestoration #woodfloor #floorstaining #floorstain #woodfloorstain (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-vf9ROAd_a/?igshid=157a375uz9jp2

[outhereontheprairie]

Moving stuff back into room 2. I don’t have time to take any “look at my pretty house” photos. Because this stuff goes back into one room, gets organized, and then we move the overflow from the next room we are working on into this one. Yup. Trim went into this room today. And already we are ripping up the next one. If we took our time with this, we’d never be finished. So I have about 5 seconds before this room will have even more things piled in it (how do we accumulate so many things even when we try not to?!) and I took those 5 seconds to snap a photo of the evening light. Onward! There is so so much to do. 🛠 #outhereontheprairie #oldhouses #woodfloors #woodfloorrefinishing #houserestoration #woodfloor #floorstaining #floorstain #woodfloorstain #oldhouse #realwoodfloors (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBzIxn1AktH/?igshid=mcxqhnmj1g6g

[outhereontheprairie]

Room 2 is done! 🙌🏻 woohoo! Only 1 bedroom and a staircase and a bathroom to do now 🙄 I’ll focus on this win today. #outhereontheprairie #oldhouses #woodfloors #woodfloorrefinishing #houserestoration #woodfloor #floorstaining #floorstain #woodfloorstain #oldhouse #realwoodfloors (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBy0NkjglMB/?igshid=199kn0zdfin1b

[outhereontheprairie]

Setbacks setbacks. I had hoped the bedroom floor would be done last weekend. Then this weekend. Then today. But the new trim I have been working on is just not taking stain. I don’t know why. I am 5 coats deep and no end in sight. It doesn’t match the intense stain color of the floor. So. I work. And I wait. Patience is crucial when restoring a house...and it is not my strong suit! The old trim we were able to salvage is now sanded and ready for stain so I am eager to see if it takes stain better than the new trim. We shall see! 🏡 #outhereontheprairie #oldhouses #woodfloors #woodfloorrefinishing #houserestoration #woodfloor #floorstaining #floorstain #woodfloorstain #trim #woodtrim (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Owzf7gmOA/?igshid=1ri9q01cg6qlx

[outhereontheprairie]

Experimenting with stain colors for the sanded floors. This one is gonna be a no from me, dawg. 😂 too orange! 🏡 #outhereontheprairie #oldhouse #oldhouses #houseflipping #woodfloor #woodfloorrefinishing #woodfloorstain #woodstain (at North Dakota) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9x2TZzAgMo/?igshid=1jxod0s0c0c2o