How was the floor finished?
Wondering if the clear coat could be removed (like they do with furniture that has been through a fire), with something like denatured alcohol, and then a darker stain applied?
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How was the floor finished?
Wondering if the clear coat could be removed (like they do with furniture that has been through a fire), with something like denatured alcohol, and then a darker stain applied?
Two coats of poly something.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
Sure, it could be refinished. it would have to be sanded off and stained then re-polyed. It would cost a few thousand dollars and my marriage.
And yet another thing that is pretty awful in Hermann. I range from thinking it is just sad to thinking it is hideous.
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I’m talking here about the big concrete block wall. We hired a landscaping company to get rid of the big little hill. Instead they made a hill that is even bigger. They actually brought in dirt!
I had envisioned some thing that was at two levels. Well this is not that. At least I have no responsibility for this design, this was entirely managed by DH. He’s not happy with it either but it is what it is. It’s very suburban. The whole back of our house looks very suburban now. Blech.
I’m trying to be philosophical about these last big projects on our Hermann house. I tell DH that you can’t do a project of the size and not have a thing or two go bad. We’ve been super happy with our contractor throughout the entire thing. He is 98% done now, he just has to come back to hang doors and install smoke detectors. We are happy with all of his subcontractors. DH himself found our neighbor to lay the floor who did a great job, and the neighbor’s buddy did the finishing job, a good one despite my poor choice of “no stain.”
All the big construction is done now and DH will do the finish work. He’s installing interior window framing right now. Then he will move onto window and door woodwork and baseboards. Fortunately we have already wrangled about what the woodwork will look like, and it was surprisingly devoid of marital disharmony. (!) We are pretty much replicating what was in the house in 1941. And it is very very simple.
He will have to take a couple weeks out to install kitchen cabinets which is coming up very soon. The kitchen cabinets were delivered last week but they’re sitting in our garage in boxes because DH wanted to get a coat of primer on the kitchen walls before anything went up in the kitchen.
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Originally Posted by iris lilies
Sanding is a big job. Ask the installer about things like a tinted poly, or chemical removal.
Tinted poly, now that would be a Possible solution, especially since we have not started moving furniture in. It’s just that we waited three weeks since the top coat was put on just to make sure that it was fully cured. I am going to talk to DH about that tonight though to see what he thinks. In every room but the kitchen, it really would not be a big deal to wait another month to start moving in furniture.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
Thanks for the idea.
That is a super idea--tinted poly for a third coat.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
With the wall, why not plant fruit trees in front of it, to give the impression of a walled garden?
It would be a fun place to put espaliered fruit or grape vines, something viney attached to it. I had not thought about that. I just assumed that we would be putting up arborvitae and junipers at its base to —not camouflage exactly— but to soften it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Yours is an interesting idea.
Arborvitae or junipers??? Aughhhh!
Maybe a few turrets or some graffiti would be more interesting.
I like the idea of espaliered fruit trees.
I actually am fond of arborvita, but Junipers become ungainly pretty fast unless you buy one of the Dwarf kinds. But see the problem with espaliered trees that somebody has to take care of them, and we have to wait many years for them to get to a point where they would actually be interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0