A round of applause, @musicmom1215 !
Do 10 or 12 more floors and youāll be in great shape. 
Iām amazed at some of the stuff I did 10-20 years ago. I donāt think some of that would be possible now.
Be surprised! Mr. B apparently is still capable of doing what he did 20 years agoā¦ he just finished shoveling a few tons of dirt/wheelbarrowing it to fill a part of the ravine. I told him - no more houses with ravines. 
Or trees that need to be taken down!
Iām amazed what my kids think I can do. This DIY Queen stuff is a double edged sword.
Iāve spent 2 days with a drum floor sander and 2 days with a floor orbital sander/edger. Now I decided I made swirl marks too far toward the middle when I saw, and had to get, tinsy areas the drum sander missed. So back to rent the drum sander to take out the orbital swirl marks.
The 120 year old floors were bad, really bad. I have 2 bags of sawdust. Either the floors will look great or Iāll fall through into the basement soon! Now Iām worried the 350 VOC poly will look like crap and this was all a waste.
I canāt moveā¦
Of course this is ridiculous, and I couldāve paid $50/sq foot for new flooring and probably have been ahead. Sighā¦I always wanted to restore an antique house and re-do floors. I can cross that off now!
Those big drum sanders are evil. They will wreck your body.
The swirl marks add character. 
I couldnāt lift one of those big guys, get it in the car, much less, up the stairs. So I did a 12 x 12 room with a mouse sander, a few years ago, then stained and polyād. Looks great. But it was our 3rd floor, not an important room and the old original coating scruffed easily. I used more serious hand equipment on a tiny hallway and on the stairs and lol, the mouse was easier. But that room was at a time when I needed a focused project, that healing Zen, just me and the floorboards.
@sryrstress If the swirl marks arenāt very deep, try a palm sander.
I refinished an area this way when the āprosā botched the job and left obvious swirls by my doorway. The prosā solution was to refinish the entire floor again. Sounds fine, right? Not when part of the floor is too thin to sand again.
Sanding is such a thankless home improvement task. A real pita! My sympathies.
Just an FYI, links to flickr are now banned again, and the existing links have been edited and modified to work (although you can trivially restore it for existing links).
If anyone wants a link to my flickr, just PM me.
Rats!
What?? We cannot link to Flickr photos??
It looks like CC now bleeps out Flickr dot com.
@coralbrook - Someone asked a question about other photo sites and pointed out that flickrās moderation isnāt all that great, so the admins re-evaluated flickr and decided to ban links.
Pfft. Now the link will bleep out even in a PM. Like news posted on LinkedIn. That one I donāt get at all! LinkedIn is very heavily moderated/censored as far as posting unprofessional and questionable content.
thanks a NOT @marvin100 - NOT!
I donāt think thatās quite fair to marvin100, I doubt the question was asked with the intent to get flickr banned.
Sometimes questions have unanticipated, undesirable answers.
Our big projects are pretty much done. Trying to decide what to do nextā¦ I have a lot of painting to do, but that can wait until the weather gets very yucky. I am thinking the toilet in the downstairs bath needs to be replaced, and the upstairs guest bath needs a serious facelift. But first we will likely be dealing with contractors replacing the junky water heater in the condo we are buying for kiddo to live in. Kind of an impulse purchase. Her landlord is selling the place where she lives now, so we looked at the local rentsā¦ yikes. $1500 for an apodment?! Decided that parking some of our cash this way will be more beneficial for the entire clan (plus it will help keeping the kid from looking for jobs elsewhere).
Why are window treatments so frikkinā expensive?
$200/window for a simple single-cell blind, itās highway robbery. 19 windows laterā¦ $-)
I know!!! Robbery. We priced custom light blocking drapes for our MBā¦ $3,000 - no kidding!! I found a long rod for $80 and a Chinese seller on Amazon who was happy to shorten the standard drapes they sold by 2". Total cost - $350. Probably not the fanciest solution, but the drapes are only used at night. During the day, they are pulled to the sides and blend into the walls.