Easter weekend was the start of our marathon of house projects, since we both had Good Friday off. I took the time to repaint our half bath downstairs, as it really needed to be painted. At one point, we were planning to redo the whole thing, but decided against it-at least at this point in time, thus it desperately needed a new coat of paint.
We then picked up our massive order of tile from Lowe's and put in the garage after a few trips to get it home. We started ripping up our old flooring and much to our dismay found an adhesive on our cement slab. We both knew it had to come off, and we bought some tools to do it. Neither one of us realized what a challenge that would be and a huge road block. That first we weekend, we only got the adhesive scraped from half of the living room.
Last weekend, Nick started laying the tile on the clean part of the cement slab. He had to divide it into sections so we could have a place to walk and sit while the tile was setting. We have come up with some interesting arrangements!
This past week, we have taking sections of the adhesive off in the living room so we could finish tiling this weekend. I think the hope is to get all of the whole tiles down and probably start cutting the custom ones. I'd be surprised if we started grouting this weekend, but as that's an easier job, that can wait.
Needless to say, as happy as we are to get the tile down and the old floor gone, we will not be in any sort of hurry to move onto the kitchen. I cringe just thinking about it. It is going to look very nice when it's all finished.
Everything else is about the same. Work, go home, relax and repeat. Next weekend is Nick's birthday and we plan to take some time off from our house projects to take Sierra to the beach. It should be a fun time!
