Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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

7 comments:

  1. you know...just want to add how much i LOVE white floors.
    especially the ones in the first picture. wishing i owned a home so i could paint them white!

    xo

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  2. I used to dream of fixing up old houses, but as we get older, I dream of someone else doing it for me... good luck, I know either will look great.

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  3. since you are so stylish.....
    and you are.
    PAINT.
    xxx

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  4. Ooh, i love everything about that first picture! Pink shoes, pink mannequin, pink stool... all on a beautiful, clean white background! Now, I'd like to hear some tomato selling stories please! xx

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  5. Thank you Renee for your kind comment, I definitely dream about someone else doing it for me...Just not going to happen! and Katie I'll get to the tomato selling story tomorrow...maybe!

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  6. I agree with Leigh - go white! I would if I could..Rx

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