that'll do

The faux parquet floor looks much better...it's not perfect, and I bet if I tried it again I could do better, but it's really not that bad.  It's in the foyer, which is a teeny room that can only be seen through another room, and it looks great in place.

Had I been paying attention to the wallpaper pattern, though, I'd have used my design with the squares between the octagons instead of the one with the diamonds between the octagons.  I didn't even realize the wallpaper had octagons until I looked at this picture...I picked it for the color and the scale of the pattern.  How cool that it has octagons!  Maybe I will do a different parquet floor...

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The other wood floors turned out better because I remembered to sand the glue residue off before I stained them this time...yet there is still enough variation to give it an 'old wood floor' look, which I like. 

I'm not sure I'm going to bother sanding down and refinishing the bedroom floor, most of it will be covered by a rug anyway.  I haven't decided yet.

Comments

[Melinda]

That foyer looks amazing! I can't wait to see the whole house. Wow!

[Susan]

The floor came out great! Looks very realistic, and I love that grandfather clock in the foyer!

Is that an ad for the number of bottles of wine you'e going to have to drink to keep from going crazy on this project?

[Keli]

You're not kidding about the going crazy part...I figured I have the house done and have moved on to making furniture by now...I've been working on it for six weeks already.

I'm glad I'm taking my time to do it right, but every step takes longer than I anticipated and it gets a little frustrating.

This is meant to be a long term project, but geez...