elisabethp: Step 1: buy red oak boards
elisabethp: Step 2: remove wall-to-wall carpeting
elisabethp: Step 3: remove carpet pad and tacks
elisabethp: Steps 11 and 12: Put down some padding and square up the first boards
elisabethp: Step 13: measure about 100 times, then realize you measured it correctly the first time.
elisabethp: Steps 14 and 15: nail down the first row, then try to figure out how to put the nail gun together.
elisabethp: Quality Control Inspector
elisabethp: Step 20: Start nailing down the boards.
elisabethp: My job is to bring in the boards.
elisabethp: Step 21: Nail gun breaks.
elisabethp: Step 22: Do some fancy measuring and cutting for a vent.
elisabethp: Step 23: Spill coffee on the new floor.
elisabethp: Step 24: the air hose on the nail gun broke
elisabethp: Step 25: get a new, blue air hose that isn't coiled for the nail gun
elisabethp: Step 26: return the rented nail gun
elisabethp: Step 27: Mr. Sandman
elisabethp: Step 28: Stain
elisabethp: first coat of stain
elisabethp: den floor (wet) and existing dining room floor
elisabethp: Step 29: First coat of odorless polyurethane sealer.
elisabethp: Step 30: second coat of polyurethane sealer