Floor Stain

I must say, I was being quite the drama queen last night. Hopefully that is hard for you to imagine. But it was sort of true. Somehow Brett and I got to talking about the flooring that we are refinishing at our house and I learned that it was not being stained, only sanded down and poly put on. What?!?! That's not what I signed up for! He claims we had this conversation and I was fine with it since it was an extra charge for stain. If we did have this conversation, I clearly didn't know the terminology or what that meant. I really didn't want the golden oak look. I was under the impression that it was being stained to match the existing hardwoods in our bedroom. As it turns out, those are not stained at all but just aged to a darker color. I am learning so much these days! So he reluctantly called our flooring guy (who is a really really nice guy that my dad has known forever) and he said I should stop by in the morning to look at some stains. So that's what I did and for a measly $50 more I am going to have dark hardwoods. Yippee!

I think my husband thinks it is going to look dumb since it won't match our bedroom floor. But I don't really care. There was no way it was going to match anyway and I didn't want it to look like we tried and failed at matching it so I just went dark. Since I painted my walls such a light color and our trim is now white, I felt like I needed a darker floor to ground it. I am pretty confident it is going to look awesome.