Flooring

Southern Woods Flooring in Bethlehem started refinishing our floors today, and they already look amazing! I'll keep posting updated photos, but here's the before & after so far. Once the floors are finished we should be getting closer to opening day - we're now shooting for mid-June!

This is what the floors looked like when we bought the house - 

Tree cutting

One of the many things we want to do before opening is work on the landscaping in the front, and also make sure that people driving by can actually see the house. We are having about 30 of the oak and pine trees cut down along the front near the road. It already looks better, and they're only half-way done!

Before:

After - about 20 oak and pine trees taken out. Don't worry, the pecans are staying!

Painting!

We're working hard to get the Judson ready for shopping & coffee time, and painting has been our first big task. We finished the front 4 rooms and the front door, and we now get to work on the front porch, and the back rooms. Once painting is done we will get the lovely old hardwoods refinished! Here's a preview of our painting...

Finding a treasure

Today we tackled the carpets. We didn't know the condition of the floors beneath the carpets, but we we're just hoping they would be decent. Here's the before picture..

 then rolling up the carpet...

 then pulling up the padding - look at that!

 for being 120+ years old, the floors are in amazing condition!!