This section is from the book "Your Home And Its Decoration", by The Sherwin-Williams Company. See also: Nell Hill's Feather Your Nest: It's All in the Details.
All oak (or other open-grain wood) floors in the following rooms shall be finished as follows: First, a coat of Sherwin-Williams Handcraft Stain, in color and strength of tone selected by owner or architect, shall be applied, followed by one coat of Sherwin-Williams Paste Filler, color to be selected by owner or architect, and before it is set hard wiped off across the grain with burlap or excelsior. When dry, sandpaper lightly with 00 sandpaper and apply three coats of Sherwin-Williams Mar-not, the first coat of which shall be thinned with 10 per cent. and the second coat 5 per cent. pure spirits turpentine, and the third coat to be applied as it comes from the can, allowing sufficient time between coats for thorough drying. Each coat of Mar-not, except the last, shall be sanded with 00 sandpaper.
All hard pine (or other close-grain wood) floors in the following rooms shall be finished as follows: First, a coat of Sherwin-Williams Handcraft Stain, in color selected by owner or architect, shall be applied, followed by three coats of Sherwin-Williams Mar-not, the fiist coat of which shall he thinned 10 per cent. and the second coat 5 per cent. with pure spirits turpentine, and the last coat applied as it comes from the can, allowing sufficient time between coats for thorough drying. Each coat of Mar-not, except the last, shall be sanded.
A coat of Sherwin-Williams Paste Filler, in shade selected by owner or architect, shall be applied, and before it is set hard wiped oft across the grain with burlap or excelsior. A coat of Sherwin-Williams Floor-lac, in shade selected by owner or architect, shall then be applied as it comes from the can, followed after forty-eight hours, or when thoroughly dry, by one coat of Sherwin-Williams Floor-lac Clear in full body. Both coats of Floor-lac shall be brushed out well.
A coat of Sherwin-Williams Floor-lac, in shade selected by owner or architect, shall be applied as it comes from the can. This coat shall be brushed out well and after forty-eight hours, or when thoroughly dry, followed with a coat of Sherwin-Williams Floor-lac Clear, which shall be applied as it comes from the can.
First apply a coat of Sherwin-Williams Floor-lac Ground as it comes from the can. After forty-eight hours, or when thoroughly dry, a coat of Sherwin-Williams Floor-lac, in shade selected by owner or architect, shall be applied. Apply a coat of Sherwin-Williams Floor-lac Clear after forty-eight hours is allowed for thorough drying.
 
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