Tax Credit – part 1
31 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
This is the first house my hubby and I have ever owned so we got $8000 from Uncle Sam! As I said before, $8000 can fix a whole lot of ugly.
I like to diy everything that I can but there are certainly things that are outside of me and my husband’s skill set. We decided to spend the money on things that we did not feel comfortable doing ourselves, the first being wood floors.
When we moved in, the house had a variety of floor coverings from varying decades.
Green shag (circa 1970) in the bedrooms and country blue (circa 1980) in the hallway right outside of the door.
Country blue, I lovingly referred to it as “the blue abyss,” continuing into the family room.
And off white with a hint of gold (circa ?) in the dining room. Unfortunately, this carpet was in okay shape, but can you imagine what it would look like after my 1 year old ate a couple of meals in there? We decided the white-gold carpet had to go.
Lucky for us, we found oak hardwood floors in three of the four bedrooms, not in the master. The condition of the hardwood was only okay and the stain was pretty orange. So we decided to use our tax credit money to refinish the floors in the three bedrooms and add matching hardwood down the hallway and in the family and dining rooms. Say bye-bye to $4000.
Here are the floors now. All of the rooms have the same stain.
Here is the same view as the first picture with the green shag and blue hallway. And you know I had to clean this room before I could take a pic. My little guy refused to quit sweeping for the pic.
The floor guy did an amazing job of matching the old and new floors. I cannot tell the difference between the refinished floors and the new floors. We like that the floors in every room with hardwood match; it seems to make the house flow smoothly from room to room. Young House Love, in my mind, the original diy house blog, talks about matching floors here.
My only complaint is the floors are a bit slick. Any else have that problem? What do you do to “sticky them up” if you will?
