Hi everyone - it's me, Autumn!
I missed you all last Wednesday but it was a most important day here and I couldn't very well not let Mitch tell you all about his very special gotcha day! He was one happy boy!
Dad and mom have been working their hineys off on the chestnut floor in the guestroom! This floor has been an incredible amount of work with planing the boards and edging them and tongue and grooving them and finally laying them meticulously one at a time. Some of these board are over 100 years old and they all had to be treated on the back side just in case there was a lingering buggie or wood worm inside the board!
Dad wanted mom to put a couple of coats of finish on the floor just to get the process started. It will take probably 4-5 coats before they can call it a job! This is the floor with 2 coats of urethane on it! It came alive! What a difference it made!
Mom just LOVES Chestnut! She thinks it's one of the prettiest woods ever! When she was working in dad's shop a couple of years ago she made this barrett out out chestnut! The Airedale is chestnut and his collar is maple. 
Not all chestnut is this dark. The darker color is closer to the bark or the outside of the tree and the heart wood is much lighter! You can tell by this Airedale spoon! As mom carved deeper into the bowl of the spoon, the wood got lighter!
So this is why there are so many color variations in our chestnut floor! Mom and dad are very pleased with the way it's shaping up!I missed you all last Wednesday but it was a most important day here and I couldn't very well not let Mitch tell you all about his very special gotcha day! He was one happy boy!Dad and mom have been working their hineys off on the chestnut floor in the guestroom! This floor has been an incredible amount of work with planing the boards and edging them and tongue and grooving them and finally laying them meticulously one at a time. Some of these board are over 100 years old and they all had to be treated on the back side just in case there was a lingering buggie or wood worm inside the board!
Mom and dad are 90% done laying the floor! The next step is to take the radiator out and finish up but it's been cold here and taking the heat out of the room is not too appealing to either one of them! This is the floor that's been laid so far - this is the natural color of the wood!
See you all next Wednesday!
Love, Autumn
Hi Maggie & Mitch
ReplyDeleteYour new floor looks lovely, you will both have to be very careful not to scratch it. We think you should get some slippers!
Your mom is very clever to make the spoon and the little airedale out of wood.
We will show your pictures to our Dad who loves wood - we kid you not!!
Have a nice day
love
Martha & Bailey xx
Your new chestnut floor look very pawsome. :)
ReplyDelete~ Bae
Ooooooo! We love it! Your floor looks great and our mom is going crazy over the spoon! Our dad does lots of woodworking, but we don't remember if he's ever used Chestnut. It's kind of scarce here, in Georgia.
ReplyDeleteAire-hugs,
Poppy, Penny & Patches
It looks great! Bet your wheels roll on that nicely.
ReplyDeleteSimba and Jazzi xxx
Our Mom thinks your new floor is beautiful. She remembers there is wide plank flooring under the carpet in the upstairs in our house and she thinks it is probably oak - when we tear down the old house, she wants to salvage that old floor to put in our new house. She and Dad have been talking about "tongue and groove" a lot - we're not sure what that is, but if you can eat it, we'll have some - LOL Our little toenails would sound nice on that new floor of yours.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful, fantastic day.
Lilly, Piper, Carrleigh and JavaBean
Hi Maggie and Mitch,
ReplyDeleteMy Mommy just loooves the new floor. When she was a little girl her house had wood floors and she and her sisters loved to slide across the floors in their socks.
Thanks for rekindling the memory.
Mommy says AH TO BE YOUNG AGAIN and have no worries just having a good time with her sisters.
{{{huggies}}}...Mona
Your floor looks pawsome!
ReplyDeleteBig licks to you
Suzuki
xxx
Wow..that floor is beautiful. Your Mom and Dad are true artists. Looking at the floor, muzzer says you can tell how much they love the wood and honor what is has given us
ReplyDeletegussie
oooo oooooh BEEE u tee full! chestnut is very lovely -- it's one on the list of favorites for the humomm...very rich color too.
ReplyDeletewe like it cuz you can slip slide 'n awayyyyyyy!
the buster sez...looks like a great "ball" room can he come and play?
looks like lots of work, but outcome is worth it.
theBUSTER, Ms.Persephone & Ms.Blue too
WOW!
ReplyDeleteThat is beaWOOtiful!
Woo are one lukhky Wheelie!
Tank woo fur sharing the other khollekhtibles!
Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra
That floor is lovely - you better be very careful with your paws!
ReplyDeletelots of woofs
Clive
Oh Autumn, I think that floor looks just lovely. Your mom and Dad are doing a super job on it.
ReplyDeleteMum very much liked your Mom's wood carvings, does she has anymore to show?
~lickies, Ludo
OMD Autumn! Those floors are breathtaking! Your Mom & Dad are so wonderfully talented!
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteAre we impressed.
It all looks lovely.
Hugs, and pats & pets
Woodstock & Blue
gorgeous! I gasped at the chestnut(!) floor.
ReplyDeleteWas thinking about Mitch yesterday when Woo decided to go for an apple that had alluringly rolled across the kitchen. After a few happy rolls on it, c-runch! she was startled but happily munched on the couch until both she and the apple were thrown outside.
Ciao M and M!
ReplyDeleteThat chestnut floor is bellissima! Your mama and papa are so talented, miei amici!
Tanti baci!
Lucia
Oh my, your people like sticks! How cool!
ReplyDeleteWood rocks.
your pal, Morgan
What a beautiful floor your Mummy and Daddy have. All the hard work has made it looks fantastic.
ReplyDeleteMolly and Taffy
It looks fantasic. Momma is really inspecting the pic, she's hogging the screen, "get back steno".
ReplyDeleteEverything is pretty.
We have Cherry cupboards but were warned about any ideas to customize them....something about within an inch of our lives.
Soooo scary soooo ruff. She's all talk.
Later
Hugs,
Rufus
What a beautiful floor your Mummy and Daddy have. All the hard work has made it looks fantastic.
ReplyDeleteMolly and Taffy
Wow! Your mommy and daddy are really talented with woodwork! The floor is great!
ReplyDeleteAutumn,
ReplyDeleteThat floor is beautiful!! My mama LOVES that airedale barrette! Your parents are so talented!! I bet that floor is nice and cool to lay on, too!!
Love,
Janie
The room looks like it's coming along very well. The floors are beautiful and is the barrett and the spoon!
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Hi Autumn
ReplyDeleteYour parents chestnut floor is beautiful. We love the colour variations.
Love Ruby & Penny
We just got our floors done in hickory, but we love your chestnut! Your house must have a very interesting history. We're glad you're taking good care of it.
ReplyDeleteHappy Tails,
William Tell
Wow, I am blown away by the beauty of this wood and the hard work of your mom and dad!
ReplyDeleteAnd the airedale spoon that your mom made is fantastic!
Your mum is so good making that spoon!!
ReplyDeleteThe floor is beautiful. Bentley and I agree that chestnut rocks! Have a great week Maggie and Mitch. And tell your people the same!
ReplyDeleteVery cool looking wood!
ReplyDeletethat spoon is so neat - perfect for serving you guys some nice cool ice-cream on a hot day
ReplyDeleteWe just love the look of those chestnut floors. What beautiful wood. Just make sure, M&M, that you respect the wood and don't gnaw on it!
ReplyDeleteYour pal,
Fenway
Wow that floor looks wonderful witth the urethane on it. Your mum and dad are making a lovely job of the guestroom - I wonder who will be the first to visit.
ReplyDeleteSee ya later Autumn.
Finni & Nelly xx
Autumn
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how many bootiful colows thewe awe in that chestnut..youw floow is gowgeous! youw pawents awe the most talentedest evew.
I will be sending you some details (pwolly next week) about my wedding..It's vewy stwessful, I don't even have time to post
love you
smoochie wheelies Myrna
Oh what a beautiful floor. Mom and Dad are doing a great job. We love the color too..
ReplyDeleteBig Sloppy Kisses
Gus, Louie and Callie
hi Autumn, your floor is really beautiful. we are really impressed with how good your parents are at this stuff. your mom is very talented. we're kind of in awe. our mom is so lame - she can barely pour dog food in a bowl and half the time she misses. you have the best mom and dad ever.
ReplyDeletewoofs.
What a beautiful floor! Your parents sure are talented!
ReplyDeleteLove,
Teddy Bear
Mom sure loves to eat chestnuts thats for sure, she never knew the wood was so beautiful! It looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteWhen you have the "warming chestnut floor party", please invite me, I'd love to tip toe on that shiny smoothing floor to pamper my paws!
ReplyDeleteThank you for showing us that pretty floor Autumn. I bet that was a lot of work getting it to look so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHi Autumn,
ReplyDeleteOur mom is full of envy for your lovely floor... we USED TO have very nice wooden polished floor in both bedrooms but now they are horribly scratched.. thanks to 'you-know-who'..
Your new floor is beautiful! Your Mom and Dad are very talented!
ReplyDeletexoxoxo
Thor
Wow! The floor looks great. I'd like to move into your guest room.
ReplyDeleteYour friend,
Niamh
Hi, Autumn!
ReplyDeleteThe floor looks beautiful!
I just can't imagine all the work your Mom and Dad had!
The spoon is great too!
Kisses and hugs
Lorenza
Wow, what a gorgeous floor! It's just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteSee ya!
Joey
Beautiful floor!
ReplyDeleteAaaah, the floors look SO beau-ti-ful!! Maybe when I get my dream farm house that I plan on restoring (and building a chicken coop for!) - your mom and dad can come down and help me - they seem to really know what they're doing!
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness!
ReplyDeletethe floor is gorgeous!
did you make that spoon? oh my! you are the most talented artist!
wow!