Underfoot

Inside the house, it is getting a little more colorful. The tile installers and the hardwood floor guys (Blue Canoe) are getting busy. Below is the ceramic floor tile that will greet you when you come into the mudroom. A top consideration was how well it would hide the mud and melted snow. The 12 inch square tiles have a lot of red along with grey, blue and brown.Not the best photo for color - but this is the ceramic floor tile in the master bath. These 6 inch tiles are a mix of blue, green, and grey.

In the upstairs main bath, the floor was extremely uneven, a big problem in a bathroom. Several bags of leveling compound were poured on top of the sub-floor - here it is drying.

Tile was laid on top of the leveling compound. In this bathroom, and in the main floor "powder room" (1/2 bath), we picked white 1 inch hexagonal ceramic tile - very probably what was in this bathroom 95 years ago.

In the master bedroom, the old wood floor is being extended to fill the room. Here's some more fun power tools, along with plenty of sawdust.

If the lighting were better in this picture (we still only have a few outlets working), you could see the old and new floor come together. (The old and new floors in our house are maple.) They will be sanded down together, then varnished. The new wood floor in the kitchen is also installed and will be finished next week because... (drum roll)... the cabinets arrive on the 17th!

These windows face west, and you can get a feel for how nice this room will be in the afternoon and evening! It looks out on the backyard and our small maple tree and larger crabapple tree.