Edging and finishing

These last two days we have been working on getting the paint off the edges. We have used scrapers, sanders and paint remover, and finally it was starting to come around! Some of the brown paint was really hard to get off! The blue paint had to have been the easiest, and in between was the pink paint, where in some spots it seemed to have sunk to the inside of the wood. It was a very tedious job, but it is worth it, as you can see below.
There was a lot of remaining black glue around the fireplace, but after a lot of scraping and sanding, there was just a little brown paint up in the corner that remained.

Looks great as a whole though!

Now for the polyurethane. We put our first coat on Thursday night. We did a section of the bedroom (we plan to carpet the rest) and the whole front room.

I really like how dark it turned out.

I am excited to see how dark it will be once it is dry. We plan on putting at least two more coats on the floors before we call it quits. I am so proud of what we can accomplish together, and can't wait to share it.