Hardwood floors

My wife is allergic to some pet dander - in particular that hair and dander belonging to my cat and our newest dog. Our oldest dog, Bridge, I think I could rub her on my wife's face and not get a bit of a reaction. well, at least of the allergenic kind. I'm also pretty sure the dog would like it, too.

We ripped up the carpets in the bedroom and replaced with prefinished 3/4 inch tongue and groove white oak flooring to match the flooring in the rest of the house as much as possible.

I was not sold on the idea of using prefinished flooring - I remember how much bevel the edges of prefinished flooring used to have. They have something like a micro-bevel on the edges and it's barely noticeable after installation. on the plus side - I'd likely have to refinish the floors in later years or before we move as the dogs have done a bit of damage to the finish - at that time we could equalize any difference in finish (I hope).

The finish is good and I think it has better UV protection than the finish on my old existing flooring . The color match is not exactly right in all light levels (for me anyway).

There are two pics here looking in and out of the door and the color difference is not noticeable at all.

We did it ourselves in one killer weekend. That big pneumatic assisted Hammer/Stapler was awesome - one whack and the board was tight to the next and fastened (forever).

Since that worked out so well and we had wood left over we went on to put hardwood in the closet. That's when I found out my wife wasn't so happy with the layout of the closet and thought we should fix that before we put flooring around semi-functional built ins....