soooo these things are a bitch. not as hard as everybody makes it out to be, but time consuming as hell and my back is all fucked up lol. finished 70% of it today. knock out the rest tomorrow. and do all the base molding etc.

hallway before:


hallway after:


first floor living room before:


almost done:

 

my kitchen floor... don't mind the dog...

apparently the rest of the house has hard woods, but the kitchen was re-done and has three different widths of wood, which gives it a great look.

 

I see you are using the Bruce hardwood

I have the same in my house and love it, like you said not tough but time consuming for sure.
Looks good.

 

we're doing the fake stuff in a couple of rooms soon. probably a couple of weeks from now.

 

Is that a snap lock floating floor?

 

nope, 3/4 inch Hickory Hardwood. No snap lock here

 

looks good man. My house had old hardwood when I bought it...I just paid somebody to stain and refinish it. I'm too lazy to do all that work...haha

 

I wish it was already beat up hardwood, and I would have paid to have them refinished. refinishing is a bitch, the stairs are already hardwood so I am gonna try and refinish those instead of ripping them out to replace them with the hickory. if I can get the stain close enough I will call it a day. The way they built the treads for the hardwood into the stairs I would litterally have to demo the entire stairs and rebuild them from scratch. So I figure I will try the refinish route first and if it doesn't work, well I guess it's new stairs time lol

 

Lol, that's how I spent my July this year. Holy shit did that kill my back. The damn nail gun and hammer were like 40 pounds.

 

Looks awesome Lee.

Wheres a good place to get quality hardwood for flooring? The more I get into renovations, the more hesitant I am to buy anything from HD or Lowes.

Also, whats a good wood for pets? I've seen some hardwood where they had dogs and their nails dented the fuck out of the floor.