Project Update

Our living room is still not finished. Projects on old houses are always filled with lots of unknowns. This one is no exception. But, we are getting closer. We have spent many hours preparing the wood for our floors. The wood we are using is a piece of Deweyville history. Several years ago (about 8 or 9 I think) our town burned down the old school. Before they did this my husband went into the school and pulled out all of the old maple flooring and stored it so we could use it. I am sure it is going to be beautiful when it is finished.


This is how we are spending our weekends lately...sitting in our living room scraping about 70 years of accumulated gunk, dirt, floor wax, etc., off the sides of the floor boards. We are creating a stack of wood in our house that needs to sit and acclimate for a couple of weeks before we start installing it. Hopefully we will have enough prepared that we can get started at the beginning of November. I am keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that I will at least have a floor and paint by December so that I have somewhere to set up a Christmas tree!