It’s a Miracle!

Our kitchen floors were pretty terrible with the two layers of linoleum flooring and plywood, but we could cover most of what we didn't rip up (for the sake of trying to keep the floor level) with new tile and new hardwood floors.

Our study and the hallway in front of the guest bath (the area directly before the kitchen/bar) was a totally different story. I wasn’t sure if it would be possible to salvage 100+ year-old floors that had been covered by carpet for the last who-knows-how-many years and had turned gray, had a huge hole in them and looked about a month away from rotten.

But remarkably, it was done! The hole was patched with antique, heart pine tongue-and-groove boards. Then the floors were sanded and refinished and they look amazing. I don’t really have a great before shot of the floors so try to make them out in these shots:

Check out the plywood filling in the huge hole:

And then these are floors newly refinished:
Just phenomenal!