Floors

Oooh doggie a lot is going on at the house this week! Today I met with the builder to determine the locations of towel holders and hooks etc. While I was at the house the cabinet guys were there in addition to the gutter company. It's coming together!

Last week Eric and I had to tackle the biggest question of this job- what color should we stain the wood floors (3 inch red oak)?? I think early on I got the impression Eric wanted light colored floors and he got the impression I wanted dark floors, but in the end we agreed on the same perfect medium brown. It looks so gorgeous! We are extremely happy with our selection.

Here are the swatches we looked at. It started with the one on the top right. We wanted it "less purple" so they did the second one over. Too light- can we make it darker? Top left- hrm, a little too orange. Bottom right- a little too green. Next one over is a combo of the one above it with the two on the right. Almost there- we pondered this one for a good bit of time. The poor flooring guys were just waiting on us- but man, it was a big decision! In the end we wanted it a tad darker so they did 50% top right and 50% bottom right, resulting in the sample on the bottom left. Perfect! We loved it. 

Here it is post- polyurethane. 

And here it is nice and dry and satiny. LOVE!