I also like the color and the grain. I have very grain-y random width oak in kitchen and family room. We might have gone a little lighter than yours, but the amount of grain showing is about the same. I love it. I love the look of yours. We went with 1/2 & 1/2 satin and matte finish on top. Satin was too slick and matte was too cloudy. Our floor guy said he liked the mix and would recommend it to other people.
The house is really looking lovely!
Love the look of the curved fence. I would be so tempted to put an ocean or sunset mural on it, or texture it so suggest surf and waves. But I realize that wouldn’t go with the period of the house.
The living room looks great and the dark trim on windows and doors is working out well.
Re the kitchen floors - I also noted all the grain at the top of the garage stairs in your initial pictures and understand why you think it might jump out at buyers. Hopefully the extra stain in the top coat will mute that down.
In the kitchen, are you still thinking of staging or including an island? That will draw the eye away from the floor. If you’re thinking of fitting one in, you might try staging some empty cardboard boxes in the same space to see how they affect traffic flow and general look before bringing in an actual island. That will give you a sense of whether such an island feels cramped and in the way, or keeps the spacious feel.
I’m fine with the wood grain as well. Everything is looking great!
Setting up boxes in kitchen is a good idea. I certainly have a lot of large boxes all over the place from cabinets and vanities
Somehow I found a small stainless steel detail sprayer in my garage and my carpenter is going to town fixing all the doors. In the end it will probably cost about $500 in labor to fix all the doors and get them sprayed with several more coats of paint. Luckily, about 50% of the doors were damaged on the side of the door that will not be visible. Either it’s the exterior of big patio doors, the inside edge of a pocket door or the inside of closet doors.
Stucco guys started today. Wrapped the west side in plastic and have base coat finished on east side of house. It will probably take through Saturday to get the whole house finished with the base coat.
We are putting drywall into the exterior closets and finishing up the basement bathroom drywall (which was just screwed together to create privacy for the guys).
We cannot go into the house until maybe Friday morning because final coat (with more dark stain) went onto floors this morning and then the stucco guys taped up the only door that gets into the other area of the main floor.
I loaded some photos
I enjoy reading the details of each flip, start to finish, but I have to confess that we are now at the stage where it is the most fun to follow along and actually start to see how things will end up via your pictures. Sometimes it’s just beyond my limitations to visualize early on, but things are really happening now and I enjoy every post and picture, cb:) Count me as one of the thumbs up for the way the floors are turning out. Glad things are going your way with the doors.
Tomorrow we are going to install toilets and vanities in the back bedrooms so we are finally going to start looking like a house. Outside looks like a mess but can’t have everything:)
cb, when do you anticipate you’ll be putting it on the market? I’m assuming it might be another few weeks??
I am on the record with the week of Nov 21 as my target for ready for photos.
There are a couple of things I am still trying to nail down. I am going to have an issue trying to get all of the tempered glass railings installed. I think that is a final detail that will be lagging
That’s Thanksgiving week.
Yes, we are hoping to stage Friday Nov 18th, clean everything up and take photos on Monday of Thanksgiving week. Hopefully we will be loaded into the MLS by Wednesday morning and be up for sale over the long weekend. That’s our strategy! We may be up for sale with some details still pending but things are never perfect.
By the way, I have been watching two flips that are full scrapes and new builds. They came out to the market ‘Coming Soon’ with some pictures loaded of the building plans. They are not selling… buyers just cannot see past all the lumber and construction mess.
4483 Adair, 92107
This house is the one that my building inspector told me was causing him so many problems. They kept calling for inspections when they were not ready. My agent called the selling agent to get information about the listing. Turns out that the owner (flip group) were pressured by their investors (mortgage holder) to put it on the market early. They demanded that he put it for sale. Strategy did not work, it’s still lingering on the market and they still are not done yet. They’ve been building it since September 2015. They still have not passed their Frame and Rough inspection because they are still building a large covered roof deck thing over the garage in the back (probably where the only views are captured)
4414 Monaco 92107
This one is moving along and the listing says completion in early December.
Those investors are really smart, aren’t they? 
This might not apply to SD… I was talking to a realtor at the townhome development that we looked at, and the guy said the sales really took a deep dive prior to the first debate. Like full stop. Things have picked up, and anything under just above the median price for a given area is selling like crazy here in my neck of the Seattle woods.
Very interesting. I have no idea which way real estate market is going to go depending on each candidate. It usually fluctuates based on mortgage interest rates.
Well, no way I’m going to get to market prior to the election so I just keep plugging along
My price point is way above the current avg San Diego price. But it’s about average for view homes in the neighborhood.
Those other guys are trying to sell their new homes above avg price so good luck!!
Today I’m placing a big order for landscape plants for front yard. Lots of kangaroo paw and succulents and sedum ground cover for drought tolerant landscape. We are going to landscape in next couple of days
At least we will get the curb appeal finished in case I have to put up the Coming Soon sign:)
I like the price of the one on Monaco - $2345678 . Very scientifically determined I am sure. 
I didn’t even notice that. Very stupid odd. Obviously a shot in the dark at pricing it
Let the Fun Begin!!!
Finally… floors are done and we can walk inside the house. Now we get to start installing all the fun stuff.
Installed vanities and toilets in the jack and jill bathrooms. We will finish up tomorrow with the faucets and shower fixtures, towel rods, etc. I chose dark vanities to pop against the tile floors. I felt that white vanities would just make the rooms look too sterile. I did not spend a lot of money, and because the vanity is a unique shape, they came with plain white countertops with integrated sink bowls. These are the easiest to clean and I felt it would be the best choice for the kid bathrooms
Stucco is about 2 days away from being done with the base coat.
We took a load of clean wood to the recycle center and brought back 2 tons of compost. Going to amend all the soil in the front yard tommorrow and then $1,000 worth of plants arrive. I sure hope it fills in the front yard enough
I set up the kitchen cabinet metal inserts into the cabinets to see which one I like. Most of them are NO! If all else fails, I can just get some plain seeded glass inserts (frosted is too contemporary)
Loaded a lot of photos
Beautiful floors and cabinets. Kind of not loving the metallic kitchen cabinet inserts. They seem too country or old-world. When you first motioned them I envisioned a really light wiring type insert, but these are more like sheet metal.
Agree, going to find some nice simple mesh. Not totally loving the samples