Just for fun, though, we decided to take a drum sander to it to see what would happen. Honestly, we were hoping for a miracle, since we hadn't budgeted for a new floor. Thankfully, once we refinished it and put down a coat of glossy polyurethane, the holes made it look purposefully distressed—or, as Jimmy says, "pickled." Now we laugh when people ask how we managed to get the effect.
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