Floor Fail

You know when you have one of those weeks, that everything you touch turns to dirt. Well hello week of dirt, I have finally met you! Let us explore what not to do when it comes to 81 year old floors, or , er...wood floors in general. 

Swiffer Wet was the culprit in this scenario. A Swiffer Wet was left on the wood floor over night. The wet pad saturated the wood leaving a rather dark spot. So we figured we would lightly buff it out....

Ahhh! My heart dropped. Joey's heart dropped. I don't know what we expected. We were sanding the top layer of our floor off. Duh. It was going to be raw. But grey? Eww...

So the next step? Stain it, right? Color match the preexisting wood and it will look perfect, right? Right? I kept telling myself that. So we bought a small can of Minwax and color matched it to our preexisting floor...

So with a brush Joey lightly painted the stain on the raw wood, and noticed it looked awfully dark. 

So we panicked again, and wiped wiped wiped. And now we are back to having a dark spot.

And with that we bring you our week of major fails! Check back this week to see what not to do when you are painting curtains, garlic growing gone terribly wrong, and a leaky window. After that we will be back with a bunch of stuff done right!

We promised to show you our screw up.....

....and here it is! So our house is "mostly" renovated. I use quotes because the most difficult parts are not renovated. The kitchen, all the bathrooms and the 1400 sqft basement need work, and a lot of it. We don't exactly posess the spend to just "get it over with", so we decided to start with the kitchen, and just spruce it up a bit. 

Our plan is simple:

• Paint the walls white
• Paint the backsplash white
• Lay down some wood floors
• Change out the hardware
• Start buying new appliances, bit by bit

We went to Home Depot to pick out some stark white paint. Simple, right? Well believe it or not finding white paint was rather difficult. We had a hard time figuring out what everything meant, so we just bought two tins of the whitest white we could find, and we got painting.

You can see from the photos above the dull yellow icky-ness needed to be dealt with pronto, and resurfacing with white made the kitchen look and feel brighter. We painted EVERYTHING from the ceiling to cabinets, to backsplash to walls three times. Joey even made me a nice little shelf from scratch. We felt good, like weekend warriors. Then while sitting in traffic on my way home from work that Monday it hit me. We painted the ENTIRE kitchen matte white. You know, matte, the kind of paint everything sticks to! The kind that's hard to clean. The kind of paint you never paint your trimmings or KITCHEN! Hence, we need to redo everything before we lay down the floors or do anything else.

We just wanted to share what NOT to do and hope you can learn from our little mess up! Oh well, a few more tubs of paint and another weekend of work is a fair enough price to pay for such a blooper.