Bedroom Floor 2 + Living Room

This might have been the hardest project of the summer. We removed the carpet in the bedroom and the living room, sanded the floors, stained them and put finish on. It took forever, and the whole house was dusty for days because of all the wood dust.

BEDROOM

We started the bedroom back in March. We removed the carpet, but that was about it. This is how it looked back then:
We sanded it really well, with the big floor sander and then with the little mouse sander. That was the slowest part, because I wanted all the stains to go. It ended up looking really good. We then stained it and finished it. Megan later painted the base boards, so they don't look dirty anymore.
LIVING ROOM
We tried something different for the living room. The floor there is much bigger, and the stains were just as bad as in the bedroom. We sanded it really well also, but decided to paint it white instead. The carpet was really old, probably the original carpet they put when they built the house. The back of the carpet had the name of the first owners. When we finished painting it it still looked pretty rough, but once we put the finish on, it made it look great.

Lake Powell

We went to Lake Powell last week, mostly to say that we went... It was beautiful, but very hot.

A cool gas station on the way there:
We got a camping spot in Halls Crossing, where we went swimming and spent the night. The water wasn't so great there. It was a little dirty and very wavy, because of all the boats so close to the shore.

The next day we went to Bull Frog, and the water was ten times better there. It was clean and the bottom wasn't muddy as in Halls Crossing.

To get to Halls Crossing we needed to board the ferry, which comes every two hours. We were lucky enough that both times, when going there and when coming back, we got there just a few minutes before boarding time. But since Bull Frog was so much nicer, it's not really worth the trouble or the money to go to Halls. Now I know for the next time.