FINALLY!

The floors are finally done!!

Here is the Before- they didn't look bad, we just wanted something a little darker, a little less like a basketball court.

Looking very much like a construction zone!

The must haves for fashion this summer! Aren't we cute in our matchy matchy knee pads?? We are totally ready for Sadies! (a girls choice dance in high school, where you wear cutsie little matching outfits!)Ahhhh.....so naive so excited about doing this.....little did we know.

Dave the destroyer.

I know right? I bet you are wondering why I have never been cast in one of those medical drama TV shows.

Here are the stairs all done..... little did we know what was lurking on the rest of the floor.

dun dun dun. THIS was our worst enemy.......WAX. It was everywhere except the stairs. It was HORRIBLE. I know it might look like it is sanded down there, but it isn't. We spent 9 hours on Saturday sanding, scraping, sanding again, begging, a friend came over with his sander to help,we even got a stripper (get your mind out of the gutter!) NOTHING! we didn't even get half of the floor sanded and it isn't a big room! We were scraping tile by tile and each tile took 5-10 minutes. Needless to say, we went home that night feeling totally defeated.

So on Monday, I woke up bright and early full of determination and headed out to Menards (a home improvement store) and bought this.....

That's right, a power stripper. About 3 hours later we were ready to stain.....well we were ready to sweep again and again and again and vacuum and then sweep again and then dry mop and then sweep again and THEN stain.