Would You Like Some Buffalo Wings with That?

Oil going down. Maybe it'll lighten?

Things don't always go so smoothly. For several months we'd planned to use oil on the floors. Apparently it's a very European thing to do, and after a lot of research we were sold.

In our last house I still remember the gut-punch I felt after sliding the refrigerator in place and seeing a three foot long

Why's it so red?!?

scratch in the new polyurethane finish. One of the major advantages of using an oil finish is that the oil seeps into the wood so scratches and wear will hardly show.

With our crazy ones, that was a big advantage. We ordered some samples from Europe and used our scraps of floor to choose our color. The problem was that it didn't go down nearly the same color as our samples.

Let's sand this off!

It was sooo red. It made the family room feel like a TGI Fridays bar.

Break out the drum sander. This floor was way too much work for us to not love it. We're going back to the old reliable stain options.