[RickyMaveety]

This is what I'm doing in my free time. You can kind of see in one photo how the floor is all dull on the left side, and then the right side is the portion that I've refinished.

Also attached are two photos of the small bookcases in the greatroom. The first one is with three years of cat damage ... it's been cleaned every few weeks, but the cat spray really damages the finish such that just cleaning isn't very effective after a while. The other photo is of the one I refinished.

I've got about 5,500 sq feet of stained and scored concrete to seal (it looks like stone tile, but it's just concrete), and a hell of a lot of furniture to make look good. So, if I turn up missing from time to time, please forgive me, I'm just knee deep in dried cat pee.

Oh, and in case anyone wonders, the plastic box mounted to the wall next to the damaged bookcase is an outlet protector that I created. All the ones that were commercially available were (1) expensive and (2) wouldn't work to keep the cats from spraying into the outlets. The problem was that the electrical wiring would become corroded (one R or two??) and then I'd have to replace the whole outlet. After a couple of electrical fires, I decided to remedy the problem myself. The box lid opens to allow access to the outlet, and then there is a cord pass through that I cut at the bottom so that I can leave things plugged in but still have protection for the outlet.

And, yes, for the men in the audience who are not into refinishing furniture .... I know the finished bookcase looks a little beat up ... but that's the look I'm going for. It's called "distressed."