Refreshing the Mexican Saltillo tiles

I arrive here at Home Depot for supplies. As you can see it is a beautiful sunny day! Perfect for when drying speed is critical.

Shopping done. Stripper/Cleaner, Wet Look sealer, Mop, Roller, and a Peruvian lily in Orange.

Oh and my Starbucks of course, this is L.A.

Here is the 'Before' floor after I vacuumed it.

The mopping, scrubbing and bucket toting begins. It is also 80 degrees, and I have to leave this stripper on the floor for an hour without allowing it to dry. So basically I kept mopping for an hour.

It took many buckets of clean water to mop up the stripper. Angelina took over mopping up the stripper giving me a much needed break. Here is the floor after it dried. The mopping and scrubbing were a LOT of work.

This stuff looks just like non-fat milk. It is applied with a roller, coat by coat but not more than 4 coats the instructions said.

After coat one.

The 'After' floor with a final fourth coat. Now it dries for the night.

I love this floor and all its imperfections. The yellows, golds, reds and terra cottas are so pretty.

Kitchen Floor tile

Contractor hired. The first thing we had to do is pick a kitchen floor tile. It came down to these two. We went with the lighter one.

First things first

Before we can even move in, this kitchen needs to be renovated. The job is going to need a contractor, but Jeff decided to do some of the prep work himself.

 

The useless Pantry that I mentioned was the first thing to go. Jeff armed with sledge hammer and saw took it out. It ended up being more well built than it appeared to be.

 The old kitchen floor tile from about 2000 is there.

In the picture above you can see the old ceiling light, which was positioned to be hit by the pantry door every time it was opened, Hence, there is no glass in that fixture. And you see? White on white on white = BORING! We will be changing that soon!

These old pantry doors will make a sturdy gardening & planting table later so we are saving those.
There are the Mexican pavers (above) They will be stripped and then re- sealed to get their original beauty back.