Getting the Floors Refinished

The Monday after Christmas we took Cameron down to Cincinnati so that he could stay with Andy's mom for the week and we could have time to spend with them for Christmas. It was a nice day besides that fact that I had to leave Cam down there for a week. I cried on the drive back up to Columbus of course. 

Monday was also the day the company started refinishing the floors. If you have never seen the process of a full refinish on wood floors, it's very interesting and time consuming, not to mention MESSY. We got back home, they had taped plastice over the counter tops and applicances and did the intial first over with the sander. There was dust everywhere. The floors were shocking to see! My floors before looked like a nice amber or honey color, now were white! I had no idea. The two messy bedrooms that needed refinished (that I thought were permanantly damaged) were perfect. I was super excited! Oh, and it smelled like the indoor lumber yard at Home Depot, just to give you the full vision. Tuesday they spent sanding the floor more but with a finer paper so there was even more dust than before which I didn't think was possible. Anytime I touched a wall, counter, anything, I was covered in dust. I spent the entire Tuesday in the basement with the dogs. Wednesday rolled around and they did the final sanding detals on the floor. I spent some of the day in the basement and the rest wandering around Columbus trying to keep myself busy. They also stained the floor that day and the color was beautiful! Thursday came and I had to be out of the house all day because of the sealent. It had a very strong odor and the man applying it had to wear a gas mask. I spent Thursday in target, home depot and bed bath and beyond. I was exhausted. WE stayed in a hotel that night, it was just down the street from us.

In between all of this going on, we managed to hangout with one of my close friends and her husband. it was so nice to see them!  I also, was lent a sewing machine from a friend from work.  I played around with it some and ended up making a cute pillow from an old scrub top.  Who knew I could sew (well, a pillow at least)?  With my new found skill, I have decided to make the baby bedding for this LO (whose name is now Carter).  His room is going to be a slate grey (dark ash according to the Behr paint we picked) and white.  Very contemporary.  It will have little owls and the accent colors are to be teal and a lime green of sorts.  Hard color to describe.  With the help of my friends, I picked up the fabric and materials I need and will start on it soon!

Back to Friday, Andy was off all day and it was also the final day the floors were finished.  Andy and I had been planning a child-free date night for a while and we decided to go bowling (for the second time that week) with some friends.  We had a great night, went out to eat and then went to listen to a live band.  In between bowling and going out to eat we stopped by the house to let the pups out and saw our newly finished floors for the first time.  Gorgeous!!!!  Money well spent in my opinion.

After listening to the band, we got back to our hotel room just around 1am.  THAT is the LATEST I have stayed up since at least July. HAHA.  About 30 minutes later, the fire alarm in the hotel goes off but shuts off about 1 minute later.  Tired and confused Andy called the front desk who told us that the whole third floor was filled with smoke.  2 seconds later (we were on the 2nd floor) we had all of our stuff in our suit case and went down to the lobby.  Tired, pregnant and irritated, I find out, someone had released a fire extinguisher upstairs (which is the smoke they thought they saw).  At that point, we left and went home.  So much for a great end to a great night. Blek.

That whole week made me feel home sick.  I got tired of eating out, sitting in the cold basement and ultimately missing Cameron.  I am SO glad it's over!