Back to doors and floors

As the temperature tops 105 degrees. We sludge along without air conditioning. Our new best item is the whole house fan. We start it up around 8:30 pm when the outdoor temp drops to 88 degrees and the indoor temp persists at 92 degrees. Sucking in the coolness of the outside world is magical. We watch the temperature drop and breath a sigh of relief. We made it through another excessively hot day.  Our night temperatures drop into the 60's. The air and walls and even the furniture drops in temperature during the night. Technically, the "thermal mass" is cooled at night to keep us comfortable during the following day. Despite this wonderful scientific cooling method, we will be thrilled to have a bit of artificial cooling next week when we fire up the air conditioner.  Why haven't we tried out our new air conditioning system yet? Simple. The saw dust, paint spray, plaster dust and general airborne debris is death to the air conditioner.  The best way to ruin a new unit is to run it and fill it with crap. So we patiently wait until the coast is clear.

So, back to the doors and floors. The doors got primed and repaired this week. Beautiful.

By-pass closet door on left, bedroom door on right. Both had suffered fire damage which has been completely removed during the priming process.

By-pass door after sanding and priming.

Laundry pocket door after being joined in the middle, prepped, primed and calked. It looks like one seamless door.

The floor and shower tile is going in. Lots of discussion about "period appropriate" textures, colors and styles. We went with a "carrera-look" porcelain 12 by 24 tile hoping to capture the marble look without the marble care. 

The laundry room is the priority. When it comes to inconveniencing friends, using their clothes washers is one of our biggest concerns. Can't wait to get this room up and washing.

Powder room gets the same floor, less is more. Fewer choices means fewer arguments.

Master bath will reflect more of the same. The shower pan is still a mess, but the floors look easy to clean and simply beautiful. 

The most exciting part of getting the tile onto the floors is that we can move forward and start bringing over the wood floor.  After it has been in storage for over a year, we can't wait to get it ready for installation. It will be installed unfinished and get sanded and stained in place.  We will lose the air conditioning once the sanding begins. But the thrill of seeing the floors appear will cool us plenty.