In Our Free Time

While working on the back two bedrooms, we hit a couple of unplanned snags.  The weekend we were planning to start laying the floors, we found out Friday evening that we couldn't just buy the nails we needed at Home Depot.  We needed 1 1/2" nails, and Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, pretty much any store you can think of had 1" and 2" nails, but NO 1 1/2".  Then, we were planning on sanding the floors over a weekend, but didn't quite feel ready, we wanted to finish a few small details, so decided to postpone.

These weekends were spent turning this...

into this...

First, we did some serious demo.  We spent a weekend taking up tile, and then the thin set beneath the tile...

The next free weekend, we went to work putting down the subfloor...Here's a shot of all of the plywood nailed down, a good day's work...

Next, we rolled out the tar paper, brought in some wood to acclimate, and let everything sit for a few weeks, while we focused on finishing the back two bedrooms.  But, we returned to this room Sunday...