Sanding and Painting

Well, we got most of the kitchen floor and the bedroom closet floor sanded last weekend. We have been slowly going around in the kitchen and hand sanding (with the random orbital) into all of the corners and along the walls. We don't have to get it perfect all the way to the wall because we will still have baseboard and shoe molding at the base of the walls.

 

Here is a picture of the removal of the carpet, pad and tack strips in the upstairs bedroom closet.

 Here is a picture after the floor has been sanded down in the closet. Quite a change.

 We also decided that this was a good time to paint the upstairs closet while we have all the clothes out and we are putting down the urethane. The color that we choose is a mustard yellow. You wont see much of it once the closet is complete but it should be nice. It is from the same restoration color palette as a couple of the other room colors upstairs.

 You can see that we are ready to urethane in this last picture.

We have been able to put three coats of urethane in both the downstairs fridge "nook" and the upstairs closet. Because of the smell and the fact that all of the clothes are out of the closet and on the bed we have been spending the last couple of nights in the guest bedroom. On went the coats which makes the floor look a lot better than the carpet.

Unfortunately we have not been able to get any urethane on the kitchen floor because the fridge is in the way and is too tall to make it through into the dinning room. Once the fridge "nook" is finished we can move the fridge in there and do the whole floor. It is probably good because it has given us the opportunity to slowly sand around the walls and get the floor ready to go. This also means a little bit of eating out because everything is covered up because of the sanding dust.