Saturday, January 19, 2013

Our first cry for help!

I'll get to a full walk-through of the second floors... but in the meantime...

Downstairs, the floors are a very fine-grained oak. Maybe quartersawn:


The entire upstairs, though, is carpeted.

The current master bedroom combined what used to be a sewing room with one of the bedrooms. We noticed a strip of carpet that was not tacked down and peeled it back:




I peeled back another section, and it looks like most of the floor was painted. I happen to like painted wood floors (not as much as stained/finished floors, but I like them), but this wood is beautiful. I can't tell if it's heart pine or fir. Any tips on telling the difference? I can post better pics later. We have heart pine in our current house, original to the 1920 house. I love it. But I'm not sure about this. It's also very wide-- noticeably wider than downstairs. I know that whatever it is would have been cheaper wood at that time...

Opinions? Hints?

2 comments:

  1. All that red looks very much like fir to me. They are soft but polish up beautifully!

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  2. Are you in Arkansas? My vote would be for pine; it is so common in the south and would have been used in the less formal, "private" rooms like bedrooms. That's the story in our bungalow, at least!

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