We are on track with this crazy 2 weeks of finishing up these rooms.  Last week we got the painting finished in Bella’s room and all the prep work on the trim in Alex’s room.  Thursday we got the priming done on Alex’s trim with a late night at the house.

Painting done

Other side

New cherry piece for the top step

Trim primed

More trim primed

The ceiling and shelf

Friday night I started sanding the floors by edging them with the orbital while Ryan started sanding the trim that was primed.  Saturday we took turns watching the kids and sanding the floors (i did the edging and Ryan used the big sander).

Alex’s room all sanded

At bedtime Ryan took the girls home and I got the first coat of poly on the floors.  Today we went over, checked the floors (they were dry!) and again Ryan took the girls home (the fumes are too strong for the girls to be in the house) while I sanded and put on the second coat of poly.  One more coat tomorrow morning hopefully if I can get over there early enough.  I can take the morning off of work but only the morning.

Second coat!

Blurry picture of the hallway and bella’s room second coat

The cherry floors have so much character and color – we love them and may have to do cherry on the rest of the house if they hold up well.

So far we are on track with the plan.  If i can get the third coat of poly on in the morning then we’ll take monday night off.  Tuesday night we’ll check the floors and if we can we’ll start painting trim but the girls won’t be able to come to the house until next weekend at the earliest (we’re going to try to air out the house Tuesday-Friday).