Restoring 1890s Heart Pine in a Denver Victorian
When the Petersons pulled up two layers of carpet they found 130-year-old heart pine - gorgeous, but covered in tack strips and lath nails. Here's how we saved it.
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The Petersons bought a Denver Capitol Hill Victorian in 2025 and asked us to bid new white-oak hardwood throughout the first floor. When we pulled up the carpet, we found something better underneath: original 1890s heart pine, milled when the trees were already 200 years old.
Heart pine like this is irreplaceable. New pine doesn't have the density or the color - it takes a century of slow growth to get the deep amber heartwood that makes old pine look like honey under a finish.
We changed the plan. Instead of installing new hardwood, we filled 130 years of nail holes with shellac sticks, made dutchman repairs where the tack strips had torn the wood, and sanded with a 36/60/80/100 progression to flatten without burning through the patina.
Final finish was three coats of Bona Traffic HD waterborne in a matte sheen. Total cost: about 30% less than installing new hardwood, with a floor that genuinely cannot be bought.
