Y’all are going to assume I’ve misplaced my thoughts, and perhaps I’ve. After I advised my mother of my potential plans, she positively gave me that “you’ve misplaced your thoughts” look. However I’m strongly contemplating sanding our bed room suite flooring down once more. Now earlier than you freak out, let me state my case.
We’ve had darkish flooring in our home for nearly twelve years now. After we purchased our home in 2013, the very first thing I did was take away all the carpet to show the unique purple oak hardwood flooring. They had been already darkish.
After which I sanded them down and refinished them. And as soon as once more, they had been darkish.
After which 4 years later, I went even darker on the end in an effort to do away with among the purple. In spite of everything, they’re purple oak flooring, so they generally tend to have purple/orange/pink undertones until steps are taken to take away these undertones.
Anyway, all of that to say that I’ve lived with darkish wooden flooring now for nearly 12 years. (It will likely be 12 years this August.)
I don’t dislike darkish wooden flooring. In reality, I actually have preferred having darkish stained flooring. However over the past couple of years, I’ve discovered myself being drawn to lighter, brighter, pure wooden flooring increasingly. In reality, they don’t even should be a pure wooden shade. I’ve simply tended in direction of lighter flooring on the whole. You’ll discover that each time I’ve the chance to do one thing completely different, I am going mild and vibrant.
After I determined to color the ground within the unique visitor bed room, I went mild and vibrant.
After I initially completed the ground in my studio, I went mild and vibrant with a whitewashed end.
And once I did the ultimate painted end on my studio ground, I as soon as once more went mild and vibrant.
So my love for mild flooring isn’t utterly out of the blue. It’s what I appear to naturally gravitate in direction of each time I really feel like I’ve the chance to do one thing completely different. And for at the least a few years now, I’ve wished that we had mild, pure wooden flooring all through our home as an alternative of the darkish stained flooring that we’ve had for nearly 12 years now. Each time I see a home with mild pure wooden flooring, I get slightly jealous and need I might have these in our home.
Nonetheless, the duty of redoing all of our flooring appeared so daunting, so I figured I used to be simply caught with darkish flooring from right here on out. I plan to dwell on this home for the remainder of my life, so I’d simply should have darkish flooring till the day I die as a result of refinishing the flooring appeared utterly unreasonable, proper?
So when it got here time to complete the flooring in our master suite suite, I didn’t even think about an alternative choice. Naturally, I figured my solely choice was to attempt to match the flooring to the remainder of the home since I’m caught with darkish stained flooring till the day I die. There aren’t any different choices at this level. So with out even contemplating some other choices or our longterm plans, I simply went with it. I purchased the stain and completed our newly put in purple oak flooring to match the remainder of the home.
These are the areas with the brand new hardwood flooring that I simply stained and polyurethaned to match the remainder of the home…
However over the past week or two, I started to understand what a big alternative I missed. Had I assumed it via, I might have realized that this was my alternative to go mild, vibrant, and pure with our hardwood flooring. Sure, it must be executed in piecemeal style, however this was it, and I missed it. Let me clarify.
As you understand, our future plans embrace turning the present kitchen into the eating room and turning the present breakfast room and pantry right into a a lot bigger kitchen than the one we at present have.
Nicely, once I get to that challenge, it’s going to have an effect on the flooring. Proper now, a part of the kitchen peninsula (the half that sits on the breakfast room facet) has no hardwood flooring beneath it due to how I needed to construct it and the order wherein I did these two rooms.
So when this space is redone, new flooring must be spliced in in order that it has hardwood flooring all through.
Additionally, once I divided the unique den into two rooms — a breakfast room and pantry — I constructed the wall first after which put in the hardwood flooring round it.
That implies that when that wall is eliminated, that hardwood flooring may also want a number of work to make it steady all through.
As soon as these repairs are made, this entire space will should be sanded down and refinished. What higher alternative to make them mild, vibrant, and pure?
After which after that’s executed, the plan is to construct an addition on the again of the home. That implies that these areas will all want new hardwood flooring that must be completed. (The lavatory may have tile flooring.) It will be really easy to only maintain them mild and pure as effectively.
So what does that depart? That principally simply leaves the lounge and music room. And for the reason that new eating room and kitchen should be executed anyway, that will be the proper alternative to only go forward and do these two rooms as effectively.
So over the past week-and-a-half, I’ve been beating myself up for lacking this chance. I initially thought I had handed the purpose of no return, so I simply solid forward on my closet and tried to place it out of my thoughts. However over the previous few days, I’ve realized that I haven’t precisely handed the purpose of no return. The purpose of no return could be as soon as I end the bed room, replenish the bed room suite with our new furnishings, and get us absolutely moved into the brand new bed room. As soon as the whole lot is moved in and Matt is settled in, that could be the purpose of no return. If I don’t course appropriate earlier than that time, then I actually am locked into having darkish stained flooring till the day I die.
However proper now, I nonetheless have the chance. This space remains to be utterly “underneath development.” We’re not dwelling in these rooms but (though we’re passing via to get to the toilet), and the rooms are utterly freed from furnishings or some other hindrances.
After all, I’ve constructed the cupboards within the closet, however I might nonetheless change course even with these cupboards in place.
So my alternative is now, and it’s both now or by no means. And I believe I need to take the chance. After I take a look at our hardwood flooring in the remainder of the home — the flooring which have been stained and lived on since 2017 — I can see some put on and tear on the end within the excessive visitors areas. So darkish stained finishes don’t final without end, and so they’re tougher to restore. A lightweight, vibrant, pure wooden with only a clear coat could be a lot simpler to restore and maintain wanting good for the lengthy haul.
I believe I’m going to do it. I want I had considered this a month in the past, and I want I had thought it via extra totally earlier than simply deciding that I used to be caught with darkish stained flooring for the remainder of my life. But when my selection is now or by no means, I’d quite select now. I’d quite select a little bit of trouble and inconvenience now than be caught with one thing without end as a result of I didn’t take my alternative to course appropriate once I had the possibility.
(I understand I’m scripting this submit on April 1st. I’ll allow you to resolve should you assume I’m joking or not. However simply take into accout, once I reworked our kitchen again in 2014, I refinished that ground thrice over the course of that rework. 😀 So should you’ve been round right here some time, and also you’re a betting individual, I’d recommend placing your cash on “not joking”.)
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You may study extra about me right here.
