Refinishing pine floors

Holy cow guys. I feel like I might finally be able to sleep tonight after weeks & weeks of trying to decide what we should do with our new pine flooring. So if you remember a few months ago we made the decision to install 8 inch pine boards into our house. Well, that was an easy decision... & I thought deciding whether to paint or stain would be easy as well. No. No it wasn't. I completely locked up & didn't know what to do because I loved painted & stained floors equally. So, I asked you…

Last week we gave you a rundown of our progress in bringing our first floor bathroom's antique heart pine flooring back to life.It had been hidden beneath poorly installed tile for many years, so we knew there'd be some repair necessary. The end result was a floor that needed to be heavily repaired with new heart pine, some serious tar that needed to be removed from the old flooring, and the need for a whole lot of sanding. Our last post left off just before sanding some DIY wood filler…

Historic houses are having wood floors ripped out, or trashed in any number of ways to make room for newer, inferior products. But there is a better way.

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.

How we stained, finished and installed our new pine flooring in our renovation. #flooring #pinefloors #diy

For 20 years I lived with orange pine floors that I hated. Finally, when it was time to refinish them I researched everything I could to combat the orange and succeeded! Here's a step by step guide on how to refinish pine floors to enhance their natural beauty - not their orange!

Oak flooring is one of the most popular types of hardwood floors. Learn about the differences between red oak and white oak.

Want to try DIY refinishing hardwood floors, but don’t know where to start? This how to refinish old wood floors guide is for you! I’m sharing everything you need for saving those old rustic floors. I made all the farmhouse flooring mistakes when I sanded my old hardwood floors so you don't have to! SAVE this DIY old home renovation idea + discover the best refinished wood flooring before and after ideas that save time + money sanding wood flooring! Pine floors, Red Oak, Light Oak floor…

Just wanted to give you all a quick update on some major happenings in our new home. A few weeks ago we told you about our heated debate involving just how we'd ultimately refinish our new home's nearly 110 year old antique heart pine floors. We didn't want to go the old stain and poly route and we were assessing at all of our various options to achieve the look we wanted. If there's one thing you might know about us, it's our mutual understanding that this isn't a matter to be taken…

Pine Flooring FAQs - I answered all of the common questions regarding using pine boards as flooring including the cost.