We recently had someone move out, and they ruined the carpet. I decided to rip it up, and found hardwood under it

This is it before. We painted the walls a neutral green color, Recycled Glass, and it's hard to see, but there are blood stains and God knows what the other stains are, so I decided to just rip it up.

LOOK. HARDWOOD! I jumped for joy when I saw it. Definitely saved us some money on this find.

You can tell it has some stuff on the surface, but all in all it's not in bad sbape.

Another picture of it where you can see just a wee bit of surface damage.

So I started ripping up the carpet edging strips or whatever they're called.

This is after the first pass with a 36 grit sand paper on the drum floor sander. And air moved up to a 60 grit next.

I finished it off with an 80 grit sandpaper and put an edger on all the spots close to the wall. Same process 36 grit, then 60 grit, then 80 grit. I dont have any picture of the staining process.

We used a weathered gray stain by verathane, and made sure the floor was clear of all debris. We probably vacuumed and swept it at least 5 times to make sure it was clean. We did 2 coats of the stain and 2 coats of polyurethane finish. I added cove shoe molding all around the room, to hide any imperfections around the edges of the baseboards. Then I hit the baseboards with the wrong colored paint, and was wondering what the hell I did wrong (paint wasnt labelled correctly lol) I did it again with 2 coats of the right paint ( I used a Behr Premium High Gloss Ultra White Indoor/Outdoor Enamel paint.) This gave us the final results as you see in this picture and the following.

I hope you enjoyed the process I shared. My wife really likes it, and I an very happy with the end result as well.