The Aroma of Stain and Varathane

        So, the floor is sanded as smooth as it's gonna get. I vacuumed up all the sawdust and wiped everything down with tack cloth. LET THE STAINING BEGIN! We chose Minwax Jacobean for it's dark deep feeling. Wearing two pair of rubber gloves was a good idea. The outer glove would get weak and start falling apart, that is when I would change them.
        To get the right color we put the stain on very heavy. A washed out gatorade bottle with a hole poked in the cap served well at squirting out the stain onto the surface. That way I could get enough down to rub in.
        It took a few days for the stain to dry and as soon as it did I put down the first coat of Varathane Satin. It took a few hours to dry enough to put down another coat, in all I did four coats. If you let it dry too much you'll have to sand between coats.

With the varathane curing, I will turn my wrath on the bathroom.