Thanks to Debbie Gartner, our Flooring Girl, we have lovely refinished oak floors with Mahogany inlay in Fleetwood, NY 10552.
When we moved to our antique home and then moved my father and stepmom in years ago, it was to rooms with that had pink shag carpet. You remember, the kind that some of our grandmothers favored in the 1950s. Ugggh! My Grandma Jean had slightly better taste and had just pink and blue Chinese wool area rugs, until she passed at 93 years!
Wow...really???!
So, we HAD to do something and had pulled up a corner of that "rosie" 45 year old carpet, to find gorgeous ribbon inlay that looked like mahogany, married to "quarter sawn oak" floors GORGEOUS!
Today, none of us could afford the kind of workmanship: hammered parquet oak that is an inch thick, nailed every 4 inches. A fortune these days to install in a home. Flooring contractors in the late 1800s were craftsmen, as you can see.
Debbie Gartner, the Flooring Girl, and her team at Floor Coverings International came to the rescue and gave us a generous estimate on "sanding and refinishing." I was glad that Debbie and her team were so savvy about older flooring because it's easily ruined. Over sanding and nails sanded off that hold old floors down are just a couple of the "no, no's," if the refinishing is not handled with care.
This is the result and they are stunning!
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