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Last week I sought advice on refinishing our previously painted floors. Curse the fool who painted every milimeter of floor space (and two staircases) in our house a dark brown that is not wearing well, but here we are. We experimented with a random orbital sander and chemical paint stripper on this small section, and as you can see the results were not pretty. We are now considering repainting instead of refinishing. If we were to refinish we would choose an ebony or black sable color, so we are considering painting everything black, sealing well, and living with the idea that we’ll have to maintain regularly. At least we’d have the ‘look’ we want. It seems like making a bad thing worse, but we’re just not sure we can handle the refinish, nor can we afford a professional job on 2300 square feet. Convince us to repaint, or not. Please.