I guess this is a milestone, the sharing of our first SLA LFMF.
The front door is a half-inch too low to not scrape against the entryway tile as it opens and closes! It never occurred to me to consider the distance between the subfloor and the bottom of the front door when choosing flooring.
Now it is too late to switch to a thinner, resilient flooring. Most of the tile is already glued down.
What choice do we have now but to get our front door raised? The door itself is metal with foam core, so we cannot shave it shorter, to allow it to pass over the tile. Perhaps buying a wood door to shave down would be the cheaper option...if one of us took the time off work today to shop for a wood door.
Tom the husband is going over this morning to see the situation for himself. Our contractor says lifting the door should take half a day of work.
More as the story unfolds.
THE UNFOLDING: It turned out that it was not so great a problem as I feared. The workmen lifted the door, and also leveled it, using shims underneath. Turns out the door had not been made level when it was installed. But it is all fixed now.
And who am I kidding? Half this blog is LFMFs.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Selecting Floor Tile for the Entryway and Kitchen: Suggestions?
I don't aim to decorate my mid-century home with period-style furnishings, but I do want to keep the features of this house consistent with the time and spirit in which it was built.
Originally, the entryway and kitchen had some kind of speckled, multicolored resilient sheet flooring, which we discovered when we removed the pink, wall-to-wall living room carpet. Doesn't it look festive?
I love the idea of a durable, nonporous, easy-to-clean floor in these areas. I'd settle for a new layer of sheet vinyl, but Tom feels strongly that it should be some kind of ceramic tile. I have asked him several times about just how strongly he feels about vinyl vs tile, and he is unmoving.
I must confess I am not inflexible on this; I dig ceramic tile. Also, this decision needs to be made quickly, if the work is to be done and we are to move in before the end of January.
However, I still want to restore, not "remuddle". I am hoping to find a ceramic tile usage consistent to the era, but the retro research I've done so far only shows ceramic tile in bathrooms. Was it ever used in other parts of the house? Would it be anachronistic to do so?
Originally, the entryway and kitchen had some kind of speckled, multicolored resilient sheet flooring, which we discovered when we removed the pink, wall-to-wall living room carpet. Doesn't it look festive?
I love the idea of a durable, nonporous, easy-to-clean floor in these areas. I'd settle for a new layer of sheet vinyl, but Tom feels strongly that it should be some kind of ceramic tile. I have asked him several times about just how strongly he feels about vinyl vs tile, and he is unmoving.
I must confess I am not inflexible on this; I dig ceramic tile. Also, this decision needs to be made quickly, if the work is to be done and we are to move in before the end of January.
However, I still want to restore, not "remuddle". I am hoping to find a ceramic tile usage consistent to the era, but the retro research I've done so far only shows ceramic tile in bathrooms. Was it ever used in other parts of the house? Would it be anachronistic to do so?
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