I biked out to a lumber liquidators store on Friday and ordered ~80 square feet of maple flooring. I’m going to cut out the big section between the dining and living rooms and put maple in there. It will look very different, but I’m ok with that. I had wanted to use a bunch of different kinds of wood, but since you have to buy 20 square feet at a time, I would have had to buy a lot. So I decided to just go with maple.

I finished patching the spot where the fireplace was and the bit in the corner of the room. Just a few more spots and then I can remove the big section and put the maple in. It’s not going to arrive for 7-10 days, so I have some time with that. Once that’s done, I can rent the sander again and give the whole thing another go to make it as smooth as possible for the finish.

Section of floor that I’m going to replace with maple

Where the fireplace used to be. Note the sawdust I’ve picked up since I started sanding

Patched corner

I also had to cut my grass today because it was really long. Imagine my surprise when I went to my backyard and saw how great my rosebush looked.

So I then took a little time and removed the enormous weed (bush) that was growing with it. It looks even better now.