{"id":1569,"date":"2010-05-31T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2010-05-31T15:48:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T23:48:35","slug":"floor-and-wall-texture-contrasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Floor and Wall Texture Contrasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we worked on the initial phase of the flooring installation, that being cleaning the tiles and putting a thin coat of the floor sealer on them.\u00a0 This will protect them from fingerprints, and keep the thinset cement which glues to them to the floor from sticking to them.\u00a0 I also got a chance to see how many were cracked or chipped.\u00a0 Fortunately, having finished with half of the flooring boxes, (18 of 34), I have only found three tiles which are chipped on the corner, and only one tile was actually broken.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1581\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/floor1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1581\" title=\"floor1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/floor1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I really like the contrast between the smooth and shiny flooring, and the natural color of the pine boards.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1582\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/floor2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1582\" title=\"floor2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/floor2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple of hours break in rainy weather allowed us to set up saw horses and a piece of plywood for a table, in the garage, for our work surface.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The natural stone travertine is going to be tricky to install, as it seems a little more fragile a material than I thought it would be.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s neat, Dan reminded me today that the first house he built for us in Alaska had tongue &amp; grove pine boards, like this room will have.\u00a0 We are coming full circle.\u00a0 I loved that little house, and no doubt we are going to really enjoy this sun room for many years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we worked on the initial phase of the flooring installation, that being cleaning the tiles and putting a thin coat of the floor sealer on them.\u00a0 This will protect them from fingerprints, and keep the thinset cement which glues to them to the floor from sticking to them.\u00a0 I also got a chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}