Fancy floors.

We got the central area of the dining room floor refinished this week, as well as the floor of the coat closet. Both of these are the original pine that is the same as what was refinished in the two rooms upstairs, and it's just a gorgeous warm, red color.

Since one would always have a fancy carpet in the dining room to go underneath the table, they used cheaper wood for the area that wouldn't be seen, and saved the better wood (in this case, the oak) for the edges. We think it actually makes a beautiful and interesting floor the way it is. We plan to strip the rest of the woodwork in the room and hopefully bring the trim and mantel all back to that warm pine color.


The newly painted walls and the refinished floor of the coat closet. It is now a much nicer home for our outerwear. (Try to ignore the scratch marks on the interior of the door on the right...we have no idea how they got there and prefer not to think about it.)