I used lacquer on my refinished dining table. Now I'm putting down reclaimed tongue and groove for the upstairs bedroom floor. I'll paint it using porch floor paint because the walls and ceiling already have a dark stain and I want a light colored floor. I put shellac on the pine walls downstairs and they turned out beautiful. Roy gave me real 100+ year old barn wood for my accent wall. I'm not messing with that patina! One board is cedar!
When I was in my early teens I worked on renovating a tenant building on a farm that was built in 1860 (I recently looked all this information up) The tenant building was actually built in 1830. It was a "tenant house" because the guy that worked on the farm lived there and the house was part of his perks in addition the to back breaking labor. The last tenant farmer was named Jimmy. I'm not sure if Jimmy died first or the farmer retired around the 70's and got a brand new house in town to live out the week and a half (not that short but not very long) of life he and his wife had left. Their health failed pretty quickly once they left the farm. I'm not sure if they had children but if they did, farming was not what they wanted to do. Had I been older I would have taken over the hard work and left the less stressful stuff to them. That would have kept them healthy until they dropped dead doing what they loved instead of being bed ridden in a white house with white walls and a crap view (compared to the beauty of their farm). I don't even think they had an enclosed porch like they did on their farm house. It covered 3/4s of the front of the two story house. Any of those downstairs rooms could have been converted to a bedroom or add one on. They did like their house and probably wouldn't have wanted to mess up the parlor, sitting room, family room, study, formal dining room, sun room, moon room, and rarely used fog room. Those last three rooms are just for fun names because I can't remember their real names. There was a mud room, an attached wood house (more like a room than wood shed and another area that was just there). First floor kitchens and bathrooms are assumed here. Oh yeah, the renovation. When I stripped off whatever was on the floor (absolutely sure California will send storm troopers to my house, even though this happened on the east coast 50 years ago, when they hear this) I'm sure it was toxic. I found floor boards ranging in sizes from 2 feet wide to whatever it took to finish the edges. When I say "boards" they're much more slabs. They weren't all warped and cracked because they were really thick. fixed in place with a combination of wood pegs and cut nails. Found a quarter behind the wood cooking stove that predated the house. I don't remember what I finally did to the floors but I trimmed out windows and painted the whole place and I think I installed shoe molding too. It didn't have much of any trim. Oh yeah, I removed about a half inch of wall paper through out the house. All soot stained. Did that in the main (farm) house too.
Just being 100% honest. I love this floor so much better than every pre-fabed, groved floor blanks, expensive install jobs I’ve seen. Love it.
I appreciate that, and I agree. One of a kind. Thank you for watching.🙏
That lacquer really brought out them saw marks ..looks awesome , great job
That floor turned out Amazing...It Sings
That’s an excellent way to put it!
Wow that floor has beautiful character in the grain!
Indeed!
Floors look amazing my friend
I used lacquer on my refinished dining table. Now I'm putting down reclaimed tongue and groove for the upstairs bedroom floor. I'll paint it using porch floor paint because the walls and ceiling already have a dark stain and I want a light colored floor. I put shellac on the pine walls downstairs and they turned out beautiful. Roy gave me real 100+ year old barn wood for my accent wall. I'm not messing with that patina! One board is cedar!
Nice! I appreciate you watching.
Floor looks awesome.
Floor envy WOW
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Thanks for sharing
When I was in my early teens I worked on renovating a tenant building on a farm that was built in 1860 (I recently looked all this information up) The tenant building was actually built in 1830. It was a "tenant house" because the guy that worked on the farm lived there and the house was part of his perks in addition the to back breaking labor. The last tenant farmer was named Jimmy. I'm not sure if Jimmy died first or the farmer retired around the 70's and got a brand new house in town to live out the week and a half (not that short but not very long) of life he and his wife had left. Their health failed pretty quickly once they left the farm. I'm not sure if they had children but if they did, farming was not what they wanted to do.
Had I been older I would have taken over the hard work and left the less stressful stuff to them. That would have kept them healthy until they dropped dead doing what they loved instead of being bed ridden in a white house with white walls and a crap view (compared to the beauty of their farm). I don't even think they had an enclosed porch like they did on their farm house. It covered 3/4s of the front of the two story house. Any of those downstairs rooms could have been converted to a bedroom or add one on. They did like their house and probably wouldn't have wanted to mess up the parlor, sitting room, family room, study, formal dining room, sun room, moon room, and rarely used fog room. Those last three rooms are just for fun names because I can't remember their real names. There was a mud room, an attached wood house (more like a room than wood shed and another area that was just there). First floor kitchens and bathrooms are assumed here.
Oh yeah, the renovation. When I stripped off whatever was on the floor (absolutely sure California will send storm troopers to my house, even though this happened on the east coast 50 years ago, when they hear this) I'm sure it was toxic. I found floor boards ranging in sizes from 2 feet wide to whatever it took to finish the edges. When I say "boards" they're much more slabs. They weren't all warped and cracked because they were really thick. fixed in place with a combination of wood pegs and cut nails. Found a quarter behind the wood cooking stove that predated the house. I don't remember what I finally did to the floors but I trimmed out windows and painted the whole place and I think I installed shoe molding too. It didn't have much of any trim. Oh yeah, I removed about a half inch of wall paper through out the house. All soot stained. Did that in the main (farm) house too.
Good stuff. I occupied one of those houses working as a ranch hand. Perks of the job. Thanks for sharing.
Looks good
Beautiful.
Love it
Nice!
I love it 💞
Me, too!
Did you know they make openers for those type of cans? Lol.
Clear epoxy to protect that beautiful floor and idea for a wall.
We Made a GIANT Epoxy River Table
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Cool!