floors, floors, floors!

Tonight I have been looking at floors

floors, floors and more floors!

We have a cottage we are renovating

 (and have been renovating for some years)

...AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE!!!

Over the years we have renovated a fair few homes 

but suddenly these last two were the

straws that broke the camels back

and we just don't seem able to finish either one!!

BUT...

to get back to floors.

 I dislike,

WITH A PASSION,

carpet

      SO.....

up came all the smelly old stuff.

 Underneath were reasonable,

 but not overly impressive, floorboards. 

The problem is that at some stage in their life 

some of these boards had been stained, some not!

AND...

the question is

do we sand?

do we paint? 

OR

do we lime?

The trouble with liming

(Which is  my favoured choice)

you don't really know what result

 you are going to get until you have finished.

Mostly they are a cross of the two above

 but one kitchen floor we did had

 quite dark blue and pink tones 

(I imagine that was caused by not quite gone old stains)

It was beautiful

BUT...

I don't want a whole house like that

most of these images are from http://www.beachstudios.co.uk

So more nights of looking at floors

 and testing in the laundry. 

I can always paint the laundry floor

 in checkerboard

 as we did in our shop

in the image below

Goodnight