Floors and Colors
The walls are now finished, and they have started on flooring. We chose an easy-to-maintain luxury vinyl floor for the main room and the bedrooms, and tile for the bathrooms.
It’s the glue-down kind: after spreading glue directly on the concrete, they carefully lay down the floor plank by plank.
At the doors, they added some thinset to flatten it and make it stronger where it’s on top of the insulation.
In the two main bathrooms, we’ve added floor heating underneath the tile. Not quite sure how that will work out: I had thought you would manually turn this on with a timer as needed, but it turns out floor heating works better when controlled by a thermostat that can look at both floor and room temperature. We’ll have to figure out how to set this so it feels comfortable without wasting energy.
Interior colors
We had narrowed our wall colors down to two choices:
After test painting some color on the wall, we decided on the warmer toned Kilim Beige (the top one in the image below).
It also happens to be very close to the color in my home office.
Some color samples from samplize.com were helpful to see which color goes better with the local rocks and dirt.
