Floor Updates

We closed on the house three weeks ago. We moved in two weeks ago. What have we accomplished in that time?

First, we redid the floors.

The once-den-now-bedroom has pegged flooring that I am guessing is not original to the house. Poking around on the Internet has led me to believe that the flooring was installed at a later date, 1960s-1980s (Floor Dejour blog). I would be interested to be directed to more resources. My suspicion about the pegged flooring seems valid when you compare it to the flooring under the two back bedrooms. At any rate, the flooring was in decent shape, a little bit of gaping between floor boards but nothing too terrible with an okay finish.

The previous owner had taken the time to tear out the carpet in one of the back bedrooms. Underneath was a sunny oak floor that needed refinished. Peeking under the carpet in the other bedroom, we found the same flooring. We had both bedrooms refinished.

Unfortunately, the living room and hallway only had sub-flooring under the carpet. A few of our neighbors have lived on our street for many years (>25 years) and they swear that at one point that living room had hardwood flooring. Who knows what happened to it: sold to pay for the new carpet, ripped out due to some unimaginable damage, a figment of the imagination). We decided that our RestoMod style of remodeling could handle this and went with new oak flooring in the hallway and living room to match the two bedrooms and closets (really, the closets still had hardwood!).

While we were at it and before our things arrived, we went ahead and had the den-to-bedroom refinished in a sunny oak to lighten it up a little.

After living on the new floors for three weeks, we love it. The house feels cleaner and more open. It seems to have brightened up the bedrooms and living area.