Day 192--Breezeway Beautification

 


And Some Shopping

While we were gone, Tyler and Amanda came and cleaned out the breezeway, primed the walls, and scrubbed the black mastic floor with some special cleaner to get it ready to be painted and to have the tiled layed on the floor. Today I scrubbed the floor some more and then tonight Dave painted a special primer on the floor that makes the mastic take the thinset for the tile better. 


The room does not look beautiful at all. Yellow from the finish on the old wood bled through the primer and the grey primer over the mastic is not a pretty surface, but now it is a blank slate, ready to be painted and the floor to be put in.  It is especially important to me to get this space cleaned up so that the mastic and dirt on are tracked in on the freshly refinished floors. 

Tonight we also shopped for countertop and furniture. It will take 6 weeks to even get someone out to measure for the countertops and we might not get the countertops for 12 more weeks.  We decided on my favorite PortRush for the Island and a much more simple white for the perimeter. 

PortRush

We will not be sitting in the living room for a long time. I got a building permit for the roof over it today, but found out that it will take 5-6 months to get furniture for it. Yikes!




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