This is a major plus, since the walls had all been built over the floors, and extracting the floorboards in order to replace them was going to be kind of a big deal.
Sanding them down alone was a major operation, but here's what they looked like when smooth and clean:
And here's what they looked like post-varnish:
As it turns out, the loveliest floors are in my blue-gray craft room in the back of the house, which are made of a different, harder wood with narrower boards.
It may just be that it was replaced at some point along the line, but the going theory is that the room was originally a sleeping porch, so it was floored with a more resilient type of wood.
Here's the before:
And the after:
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