This room pretty much sums up the disaster area that we have created at our little house in Ojai
It looks like we were having a paint ball party in that room!
One thing has sort of lead to another...
funny how that happens with a remodel!
it's that can of worms thing
so now we have now jumped in with a vengence...
or a whimper as the case may be here
suffice it to say we are not,
I repeat,
NOT carpet people
we tend to bring the outside in with us...lots of the outside,
and
the occasional dirty frisbee
So we are putting in some new hardwood floors.
And in order to do the job correctly,
some of the weird and wacky 50s trends needed to go...
such as this ugly brick hearth
And the fake ceiling beams and a few other miscellanious cobbled together works of master carpentry (not)
which are now residing happily in the dumpster.
After we pulled up the carpet we found the old oak floor....which we knew was there,
and yes that's my wine on the table....
much needed after a day of watching this demo happen.
I actually like the demo part...it's always sort of exciting
So exiting in fact that I need to drink wine alot.
Ok well...enough of that
but surprise surprise ...when the hearth came out, we were left with this large hole and no floor
and to make matters worse the original builder
had filled the open space inside the hearth
with rocks and sand from the yard...
which also included cat poop....also from the 50s,
interesting how long that kind of thing (poop)can survive right?
weird...I know
any way...moving right along
I was able to find some beautiful old wide plank pine for a pretty good price,
but there wasn't enough to do the whole house
So I found some smaller width, newer pine,
and we will be blending it in with the old stuff...
which I think will look more interesting actually
Now for the fun part...
well it started out fun
I think we have mocked up just about every stain color on the planet trying to find the perfect color for this house.
I'm looking for something that looks like old drift wood.
like this:
I want that floor!
way too red
too yellow
too dark...
Every thing we tried was just not right
so....
we decided to create our own custom blended stain.
I will explain how we did that on a future post.
thank you
John and Dave and Greg
It really is not all that hard, just a bit of trial and error
and twenty trips to the paint store.
But today is friday and the guys need to be paid....
And in order to keep my guys happy
they got a nice check
I am aways happy to pay them because they work so hard
by the way
I have great guys!
and
a gift from the garden for their sweeties
have a wonderful weekend
and thank you so much for stopping by!
kelley
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