Refinish pine floors

Our yellow pine floors (from Lumber Liquidators) are officially finished and cured, and I am fairly certain I’m in love with them. Installing and finishing hardwood floors ourselves is definitely not the easiest or quickest option when it comes to flooring. But I think they were worth the time and effort. Not only is the flooring beautiful and […]

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…

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Hey everyone! Today I’m going to talk about the floor sanding process, which is part two of our refinishing project!

Find out in this blog how to prevent pine from turning orange, keeping a pale light tone for years to come whilst maintaining protection from foot traffic.

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.

Transformations Before/After on Instagram: "Gorgeous pine floor restoration by @precisionfloorsanding"

Of course, you can do it! You only need to be ready to adhere to all the rules to will take you to success. Painting a laminate floor involves choosing the

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.

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…