🔨Family Room Makeover | Installing Pine Board Flooring + Removing Ceiling

Hey guys, welcome back to another video. I have been so excited to show you guys this room because we recently did like a mini makeover and then it kind of turned into a little bit of a bigger makeover. We decided to not do a full-blown DIY because a lot of this was peeling back things that already existed in this house and not everybody can do that. Like not everybody can expose their ceiling and have the same kind of ceiling. So that's why I just wanted to walk you guys through kind of what we did and then last minute we decided let's remove the carpet and let's do our own floors. And so that is actually one of the things I'm the most excited to show you guys. We didn't do a DIY again on this but we could in the future because this is flooring we actually want to kind of carry throughout the rest of our house. So I'm excited to finally reveal all of this to you. Since we moved into our home over six years ago now, this living room is always kind of, I don't know, the ceiling has just bothered me and we always wanted to eventually wrap some like faux beams in here, put some shiplap in here. Like that was something we always talked about doing but just never really got to it I guess. I don't know. If you look out of our windows you can see past our windows that there is a bunch of shiplap and there are beams. We've always wondered if that existed underneath our ceiling. We were just curious and our curiosity got the best of us one day and I was like, Thomas just poke a hole. Just poke a hole in the ceiling and let's see what's up there. So he did and sure enough what we've always suspected was true. There was shiplap and beams all over the ceiling. So we were just like, what the heck? Why did they ever cover this with sheetrock? That's crazy. So Thomas got to cutting all of the pieces of sheetrock off and then to our other surprise all of the beams were painted. So that is actually what took the longest, probably about two weeks of peeling the paint, sanding it down, peeling more paint, sanding it down because there are one, two, three, four, okay, eight beams plus a giant, giant beam that runs this way and all of them were covered in so much paint. Layers and layers of paint and then there was like a top coat that was really hard to get off. It was, it was really strange. We always run into weird problems so that was the hardest part I would say about this process but I think it was worth it. I'm not the one that did all the hard work but Thomas says it was worth it. So that's kind of what we did to the ceiling. That was really just a matter of sanding and exposing beams was really all we had to do there. Basically no cost besides the paint stripper and sandpaper which he did go through a lot. Now once he did this I have always wanted to have window panes. I think that's what they're called on all of my windows. In fact when we first bought windows for this room these two windows back here did not exist and that's the front of our house. I always thought that was really weird when we walked through here there was not one window on the front of our house. They were just all back windows and I thought okay that's the first thing we're gonna do because that's just weird. I bought windows that had window panes because that's I've always loved the look of that and for some reason I don't know if there was a mix-up these got installed and they're giant they had no panes in them and I was a little bit sad. So we had a bunch of windows here that we had to end up taking back to the store but it was too late. These windows were like double the size of the ones that I wanted to have and now there was a giant hole in the front of our house so we just ended up sticking with these windows. So another thing I had Thomas do was make a bunch of faux window panes and I'll show you guys the kind of wood that we used. We actually did something similar in our bathroom years ago and it's held up perfectly. You can still open and close the windows. It looks great from the outside. So this was a very inexpensive way to change the look of our windows and I feel like they look very cottage style. That is actually my favorite style of home is like English cottages and so I just think it looks so much better now. We did it to the back two windows right here and the front two windows as well. The next thing that we did is probably the biggest transformation. Actually I feel like all of it together is quite the transformation but the flooring. So we originally had carpet in here. That was one of the last pieces of flooring that we removed from this home. It was pure white carpet and a few years ago we finally got that changed but once we got the carpet in the house it looked totally different and looked really silver and it's always bothered me so I've always wanted to remove the carpet but I felt like once the ceiling was exposed I'm like it's time I think it's time we got to just rip it up and let's put some wood floors down. Now our family loves to hang out in here and so there was a little bit of pushback thinking about our kids sit on the floor so what we ended up doing is getting a really large rug. I got it from at home it was only $99 and it's not the softest rug as far as padding so I bought a giant thick pad it's like half an inch thick of felt off of Amazon and that was only $67 so we're talking $167 and now my kids sleep on this rug because they say it's so soft so I definitely wanted to have a rug I thought it would look like there was too much wood if the whole floor was wood and the ceiling was wood. I feel like the rug really ties everything in together. Anyway back to the flooring so the flooring that I chose and this is something I've always wanted to do but I've been a little bit scared because I've always wanted to have pine boards as flooring and yes you can use it as flooring the difference between pine and hardwood flooring is really the fact that it's soft so soft wood versus hardwood. Hardwood is harder to ruin basically and softwood will get dinged and actually that's what I wanted. I wanted my flooring to look like it was 100, 200, 300 years old so any dings that happen is welcoming. I'm actually I dropped a ladder in here the other day and I left a pretty big ding in the floor and I actually was a little bit excited I felt like it added a lot more character to the flooring so that's another reason I felt like I didn't want to necessarily do a DIY on this flooring because this is not for everyone not everyone likes the look of this this is a flooring targeted for a very specific probably small group of people that like old distressed looking floors they want their floors to look old and kind of worn down so that's what we did and I will list the stain colors below we just got boards that were six inches and four inches and I had us do there's kind of no pattern to this I wanted small boards mixed in with the large boards some of them are six feet long which is another really cool look to this it's just not what you would normally see on a flooring where all of the pieces are like the same exact size I'm obsessed though I'm so obsessed with this flooring the second this was done I was like okay you're gonna hate me because I want this literally everywhere upstairs the other benefit to this is this entire room cost about seven hundred dollars in flooring and when we did carpet in here it was over three thousand so you definitely save money but again this is not a floor that everybody would be into something that Thomas did was with each board he completely stained it he did like a darker color and then he did a white color over the top and wiped it off and he never does it with with a brush he dips a rag really lightly into the stain so it goes on really light and then covered it with the white and wiped it off and then he went and beveled all of the sides and I feel like that's what really gave it the worn down look once he got it to fit like where he needed if he needed to cut it he would take it back out and bevel the sides again so that each board looks like it's just worn down where the two boards touch and that definitely made it take more time but that's also why this looks like it has so much character already as a brand new floor so I'm super happy with it I love it the last thing we ended up doing was going in and just hitting some nails in there were some places we actually needed nails for it to stick to the floor better everywhere else he just pin nailed the floor down and then we went in with some nails because I again I like the look of that and I wanted my floors to look like they were old and that's what they used to do hundreds of years ago so that's basically what we did here the last thing that we did is we actually just messed with our fan a little bit I know I need a new light but I love our fan we use it all the time it's fine like the color is fine but what I actually ended up doing was just removing the glass around the light bulbs and then we put in some Edison bulbs and I feel like that just helped me like the ceiling fan again so we're fine with that for now I know the light fixtures are kind of everything in a room so we probably will eventually change that out that's still original when we bought the house I feel like it looks fine right now yeah I think that's basically all we did in here when Ashley came to me with this project I'm putting pine boards as wood floors first of all it went against everything I knew about wood floors so I started doing wood floors when I was like 18 and I worked for her dad so her family comes from like a long line of people who did wood floors also her dad did them from like 15 years old until the day died typically when you install wood floors it's floors you want to be durable to not get scratched to last as long as possible right these are the opposite the more dinged up the more they're beat up the better they look and the older they look and they're actually easy to fix and repair so like if it's tongue and groove hardwood and that board gets damaged you need to take a skill saw and cut that specific board out you can't just take the board out like you can these these are pin nailed in and then hammered in with nails on the top to give it that old wood floor look so removing one of these boards is very simple and very easy and then if there's a ding or a dent or like a major issue or problem you just pull the board up and replace it with the same size board because these can be cut to whatever you want as I started to do the process I realized the more I beat up the board in the beginning the better it looked once it was finished and installed so my first step is I take my chisel and I go along the sharp edge and I bevel the whole entire thing and then in some areas I'll bevel it a lot more than others so like here I'll dig in really deep to get like a big curve to it and then when I do the next board that is paired with this I'll make sure that I don't have a deep bevel in the exact same spot they'll be different and they won't be there won't be any symmetry to the bevel after I bevel each edge I'm going to take my sandpaper and it's got to be 220 you want to get the surface finer than it was on the pine wood originally so make it a little bit smoother that way the stain doesn't absorb deep into the pine wood you only want it to go in a little bit the deeper it goes the darker it is so you need to make sure you sand it with a 220 and then all of the beveled edges I make sure there are no slivers on any of the edges or on the top of the wood so if you see a spot that's like really rough and 220 is not doing it jump to a 120 just to get the roughness down and then go over to 220 and finish it off with that on every end of each board I do the same thing I round the corners off a lot because I want when the transitions touch that they don't flush together I don't want them to be perfectly touching so on some of the ends like I'll take a little bit more out of this end then I will the other end then I take my sander and I just hit the ends just like I do the sides now you guys will see the difference of this end and this end I bring this one down a lot more than over here when I'm done sanding the top and the corners I take my hand and just run it along the whole piece if I feel anywhere where wood is slivering up at all I make sure to hit that spot a lot more my main thing is not allowing this wood to sliver and get in anyone's feet obviously we're still going to do a top coat but it's still very important you don't have any wood slivering up this looks scary I know be sure to get the edges where you bevel really good in case you can see the sides you don't have to do the whole side because you're not going to see like low but if there's a big bevel you will see the side after I apply the white I take the dark rag I don't put a ton more stain on it at all like I'm just using basically what's left over and I'm just going to lightly go over the top to take a little bit of the white out of it so you're still going to see some white but it darkens it up quite a bit a great tip is taking this board inside when you're done looking at it with the lighting that's inside of your house rather than what's outside to see if that's what you like the most however you need to wait a little bit take it inside let it dry all the way a lot of this white you're seeing will absorb all the way and it's almost non-visible so if you like the deeper white do a few coats of the white check it inside let it dry and see what you want to do from there we noticed it changing colors right in front of us like we watched within a 60 second to 90 second process the board looked different so it's really important you take it inside your house look at it first and then repeat the exact same process you did if that's what you like this is the polyacrylic top coat that I use it's water-based we didn't want ours to be very glossy so we did a flat finish I do a coat let it dry another coat let it dry then I bought some thousand grit sandpaper off of amazon which was like six bucks for a pack of 50 I'll hit it with that thousand grit with just my hand across the whole floor then I'll do another coat on top of that and that's usually enough you basically can do as many coats as you want based off of how much wear and tear you're probably going to put on the floor this is the pad that I use they're like seven dollars at your local hardware store so we should leave that I was like yo why is that sliver knuckle