My New Line of Work

Doug and I decided to take up the carpet in the living room because it was so stained, every time we cleaned it, the stains would be right back in a couple of days. So we took it up and were we disappointed! Our beautiful hardwood floors were ruined! The people who put the carpet down (Lowe's employees) had used really big nails to put the carpet tack strips down and had put the nails about 1" apart. So my floor was full of holes on the edges and looked awful where we had cleaned the carpet so much trying to get all the stains out, the floor looked awful. SO...we decided to sand the floor and re-varnish it. Remember, we've never done anything like this before. It took us almost 2 days to get it sanded. It wasn't the sanding that was so hard. It was the edges. We rented an edger but it still didn't get all the way to the edges. So we burnt up one of Doug's sanders, almost burnt up 2 more, and finally had to go buy a new one and Doug got the edges looking good. I couldn't have done that. I don't have that much patience. But I filled all the nail holes and did alot of the sanding. (So if it looks like ocean waves, blame me! LOL) We had to take out the gas fireplace and do half the room at a time because we couldn't get the couch out. It took 2 days for 2 coats of varnish to dry on the first half. Now the 2nd half has one coat on it. Doug did the first, I did the last. So now I think we'll go into the floor refinishing business. As soon as we learn to get the varnish down evenly. Here's my "new" floor (without the fireplace and only one cushion on the couch, and quite a bit of varnish on the bottom of the couch):

So...what do you think? Think I could make a good living out of this?