We were planning on using IPE hardwood floors throughout the house upstairs. We were going to use it everywhere except the two bathrooms…that includes the kitchen. Upon further thought (more so because of the advice Robin gave us) we decided that hardwood floors in the kitchen would not be such a great idea. Tile is cleaner, easier to maintain and much more durable than hardwood floors.
- Today, we have a lot of things going on at the house.
- Jerry is framing the forms for our gate/fence at the entrance of the property
- Gino and Kevin are putting up concrete board in the master bath
- Gino, Kevin, Jerry and I are going to move the heavy ass mahogany cabinets out of the kitchen into the great room
- We are going to put down the concrete board in the kitchen (opposite direction of the 3/4 plywood that is in there now for strength
- Summer and I are going to look for tile again today (we looked on Saturday…with a little luck)
- Summer and I are going to put down Behr High Gloss Concrete Sealer through out the entire downstairs (using Gino’s 18” rollers)
- I am going to order a 20” utility sink for the laundry room (smaller than normal…Home Depot doesn’t carry it hear in Puerto Rico…only on the mainland WTF
- We are meeting with the landscapers at 4:00pm to see their computer renditions of our property with their landscaping ideas along with an estimate
Busy day.
It’s funny. I was talking to Summer last night about the complete paradigm shift that I had when I moved down here and started working on the house. I have seen 100’s of houses being built, I have spoken with many people that have built their own house…but now I see building a house in a completely different light. The hard work took a while to get used to, especially in the heat, but now that I am used to working with my muscles everyday (as well as on the keyboard) I find the hardest part about building our house in Rincon are all the decisions I need to make (based on what is available to us here and the vision it takes to make them) on the daily basis. Anyone want to come down and make some decisions for us? That is the hardest part.
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Yes, the decision making is the toughest part for sure…Now we know why arcitects and interior designers make the big bucks. And, although decision making is mentally exhausting, I love that everything in this house is coming together with the decisions and ideas that we have made 99% o our own (thanks for the advice on the kitchen flooring Robin, the tile we picked out today is AWESOME!).
I made the 1st bad decision (the green paint in the kitchen) and today we decided that it needs to be repainted. It’s just plain ugly and kind of a ghetto color against the mahogany window panes, cabinets, stainless steel appliances and marble tile…whoops! And of course it’s going to be mucho mas trabajo painting the walls now that we have to tape around the window panes, etc.
Sorry…but you know how it is when people make glass rings on wooden tables…..well, pretty soon wood in kitchen would have all kinds of oil and water marks because the wood finishes are just so thin and weak. What color paint for kitchen. I want to see the tile!!!