Before and after

Here are our dining room and kitchen floors when they were still candidates for the Hideous Floor Hall of Fame. I thought the kitchen floor still looked pretty good (for a barn.)


Here's the dining room floor. As you can tell we used to drive heavy equipment on it.


Here's our living room all empty and ready to be sanded.


You wouldn't believe how much an empty house with hardwood floors echoes.


Here is the dining room floor "after" photo. Oooohh. Aaaaahhh.


Saffy can hardly recognize this as her own beloved kitchen.


Here's our living room with some of the furniture back. It's so nice to be back in our own home and somewhat settled back into our usual routine.


Arden and Lorraine were so kind to let us invade their home and pantry (though Melinda made sure to hide most of the treats so the kids didn't OD on marshmallows, Pearson's Nut Rolls, and Fresca.) The kids really loved it, I think they thought it was just one continual party at Hotel Grandma and Grandpa's

It was so good to have somewhere nice to stay while our house was in construction mode. But it's good to be back home again. Just like Dorothy with the red sparkly shoes always says, "there's no place like home, there's no place like home!"