Floor Refinishing

When I first bought the house, the living room had carpet, and the dining room had fake laminate hardwood flooring. I knew there was original hardwood underneath from peeling back some of the carpeting, so this made me pretty suspicious of the condition of the original flooring.

 

After ripping out the old carpet and pulling up the fake hardwood, I found some pretty vicious pet stains. Some of them can be seen in these pictures:

Unfortunately, I don't know how to repair this. I could replace the entire room with new hardwood but I don't have the money for that. The only other options were to refinish the floors as is, and put throw rugs over the stains, or to re-stain the room with a darker color. While I originally was hoping to keep the natural wood color, I chose the latter because I didn't want to use throw rugs unless I absolutely had to. Here are the results after sanding. You can really see the stains here (and this is how they would have remained looking after the polyurethane if I didn't re-stain the floor). Notice the green shade to them below the sanding machine.

 Laying down the stain. I went with MidWax "Dark Walnut":

 Three coats of polyurethane:

Here is the final result, after the poly had finished drying:

 I had them do the rest of the rooms as well while they were there. For comparison, here is how the natural wood would have looked in the other room:

Overall, I am very pleased with how the floors came out. I used A. Dion and Sons and would recommend them to anyone looking to have the same job done.