Sanding wood floors

A little over a year ago, I purchased a home with wall-to-wall, stained and smelly carpeting. Lucky for us, because underneath all this mess was beautiful oak flooring. The wood was in pretty decent shape except for some pet urine stains and scratches. There was also a lot of grime and build-up that needed to…

I think I am still in shock. My family is too. Our 20 year old floors are simply gorgeous now. I must share our “No Sanding Non Toxic Wood Floor Refinishing” discovery with you. I would have done this during our DIY Kitchen Makeover (found here) if I had known. Here’s how it all began. While... Read More

Learn how to paint wood floors...the lazy way! Painted hardwood floors WITHOUT sanding! That's what we did. Here's how you can do it, too!

Choosing Floor Stains: Top- bottom- 1) Waterborn clear coat 2) Polyurethane 3) DuraSeal Nutmeg Stain 4) Duraseal Provincial Stain 5) Minwax Weathered Oak. Note: DuraSeal Stains are by Minwax. Left side 80 grit sanded, right side 150 gril sanded. The level of sanding effects the stain appearance.

Hey y’all!! I’m a day late with this post. I planned to share it yesterday, but I was most delightfully interrupted by the birth of my precious new niece! It was such a joy to be at her birth! If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you probably saw a sweet photo of her. 🙂 Okay, on...Read More

The entire appearance of a home can be changed with refinishing. Whether the choice is to hire a professional or to DIY, make sure to do proper research and get recommendations from trusted friends and neighbors. Get insight and tips for refinishing hardwood floors here.

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.

We removed 130 years of gunk by stripping hardwood floors without sanding. It's easy to do yourself if you can't or don't want to sand with paint stripper.

Rust-Oleum RockSolid Home Floor Paint System is a two-step interior floor product meant to cover up unsightly wood, tile, and linoleum floors without sanding, s…

How to whitewash hardwood flooring! A peek at our 1905 home restoration journey and how we white washed our original floors!