More reno...yay...

Tucker here, posting now that my fingers have healed.  I started to get some good sleep and had a free weekend or two, so of course I started doing renovations again!  But this time, rather than tackle a 6-month reno, we decided to keep it to 3 weeks.  We still had some leftover sheet vinyl (i.e. plastic) tile that your feet would stick to when you walked on it.  No matter how much we cleaned it, it still felt gross...kinda like giving a rat a bath...cuz it's still a rat.

Man, that tile was difficult to get up!  Why is it that all the gross stuff in our house is always the hardest to remove?  But, after 2 solid Saturdays and Sundays of back-breaking, blister-forming, gut-wrenching, lifespan-shortening, hard work, it finally all came up.  I never thought concrete could look so good!

With the fake stuff up, the rest was a breeze.  We decided to put in saltillo tile (like a clay tile), which is in keeping with the style of our home.  It's really cool, but it's naturally uneven, which makes it easier to install.  Saltillo tile is only made in the town of Saltillo, Mexico.  Some of the undersides of the tile even had articles from the local Mexican newspaper; I think there might have been a sale on avocados...or maybe some guy named Mr. Avocado was running for mayor...I was never that good with "the Spanish".