How to Refinish Your Hardwood Floors By KBO Part Two
- Begin staining process. Convince husband that he really has to do the staining himself because you would mess it up.
- Start to believe it yourself.
- Realize this process is taking four times as long as you had planned.
- Feign normalcy by inviting friend and three-year old daughter over to lunch in the basement. Reassure three-year old, upon urinating on the floor, that she wasn’t the first to pee on the floor that day.
- Resume role filling scratches and holes with wood putty because you are an equal partner in this project.
- Go ladycamping while husband stays behind to stain. Decorate your own coozie and drink vodka-spiked Capri Suns. Talk about periods.
- Realize giant pimp tent is less claustrophobic than basement, smells better.
- Return to beautiful, untouchable floors.
- Clean up basement dog pee, vomit, poop, and shredded personal items.
- Repeat #9.
- Repeat #10
- Referee countless rounds of Basement Dog Thunderdome.
- Thank Baby Jesus for awesome husband as he seals the floors.
- Agree to do all tangential helper-type activities until floors are finished.
- Do that shit with a smile.
- Relax in clean, fresh, carpet-free bedroom. Breathe.
Please to ignore our bare bedroom. We’ve only moved essentials thus far. More pics on Flickr.
(On July 29th, 2010 at 11:17 am)
GORGEOUS!
(On July 29th, 2010 at 11:35 am)
Looks great! Nice job, Chris…and, er, Kelli.
(On July 29th, 2010 at 11:43 am)
It looks awesome. Love #6 and 7, pimp tent was made so much better with a pimped-out air matress! Looking thru your flickr…I never noticed your awesome living room windows before, I love the detail in the woodwork about them!
(On July 29th, 2010 at 12:06 pm)
Nice! It makes me want to do the same with our bedroom floors, except that the floors are only one tiny facet of the hideousness that is our bedroom.
(On July 29th, 2010 at 12:34 pm)
Floors look awesome. Great job Chris! The house is really coming along.
(On July 29th, 2010 at 12:43 pm)
Nice! I really like the dark stain.
(On July 29th, 2010 at 12:47 pm)
So pretty. And inspiring. Time for us to tackle another one of these always-takes-longer-than-you-think projects. They’re so worth it in the end.