How to Install Beautiful Farmhouse Floors Using Unfinished Lumber

by CreekLineHouse .

So you want to DIY yourself some pretty wood floors do ya? We just completed this project in our new nursery and I absolutely love it. Head over heels. I have to say though, easy-peasy it was not. Well, for me it was because there wasn’t much I could help with, but for Chris it was a fairly back-breaking process. That being said, they’re beautiful and totally worth it. We’ll definitely be doing this type of flooring again in other rooms of the house.

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how to install beautiful farmhouse floors using unfinished lumber

Because Chris spent most of the time that he was working on this project cursing this old house of ours, I wasn’t really able to get in and get pictures of him working on it, but I did manage to sneak in and instagram the step-by-step progress.

The wood we chose was basic tongue and groove (tongue in groove?) pine boards that you can find in the lumber section of your hardware store. These are about 3/8″x 6″. We cut the boards and dry fitted them in the room to make sure we had the right number of boards.

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Next it was time to attach the boards to the floor. Of course, it’s Chris, so he thought they looked terrible and spent the next several days sanding them until they were ridiculously smooth.

Then it was time to stain! The stain we used was from Varathane and it was actually a stain and polyurethane in one, in a color called Early American.

Then it was time to stain! The stain we used was from Varathane and it was actually a stain and polyurethane in one, in a color called Early American. (Don't forget to click on the link below for the full details and even more pictures!)