Day One-ninety-three: new floor

Actually it's not a new floor, but it looks like new. We had the original white oak floors refinished and repaired this week and the place looks like a million bucks. We're pretty sure this is the first time anything nice has been done to these floors since the house built. Here's the rather tired looking living room floor--dusty, scratched.

This is one of the bedrooms. The first owner had a couple small, yippy dogs that seemed only partially housebroken. This is the legacy.

But here's the same area after repairs and refinishing.

Similar transformation of this other corner.

Finally, we had the company replace a strip of maple that our long-departed contractors had installed as a transition strip. Six inches of maple didn't look right, so now it matches the two woods (maple and oak) better by using the same flooring that we installed in the kitchen. (That's masking tape in the middle to keep the finish from spilling over.)