I love our wood floors!!!!

I've always loved wood floors. Our choice of wood is due to close friends, Monica & Paolo, who laid African Iroko hardwood in their apartment in Milan and we loved it on sight! It starts out slightly blonde with red hints, but darkens as the light touches it over time to a deep reddish-brown (similar to a cross between Mahogany & Doussie). Our entire ground floor has been laid with African Iroko hardwood and already we can see changes in the colour.

cleaning up after second pass with sander

View from stairs leading to den and extension

Wood floor recently sanded and gaps just filled

Floor prepped for third sanding session

Alcove to right (colour difference shows where filler

was applied)

Fourth sanding, but first sanding over gap filler application

(notice colour change)

July 16th to August 12th

Work completed between July 16th - August 12th, 2010

- Sandstone patio

- Installation of long awaited sliding glass doors with flush triple track system

- Tiled basement & extension kitchens, bathrooms & utility rooms

- Laid, sanded & varnished parquet floors

- Painted basement bedroom, lvg space, bathroom, utility room & kitchen

- Painted mezzanine level bay window bedroom (not pictured)

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We're almost done!! 13 days to completion!!!!!!!!

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Newly plastered walls AND screed flooring completed

entrance area to basement freshly plastered

(skylight above this alcove area)

Alcove area (looking with basement bedroom at back)

under arch to the left is the doorway into the den area of extension

Basement: alcove area to right and this room is a bedroom space

Basement: looking from bedroom into

open-plan kitchen/living space

Basement: lvg space/open-plan kitchen

(utility room to right)

Basement: open-plan kitchen & lvg space

Front door entrance to basement

Front of house (basement entrance - old PVC door)

Antonio removed the old institutional-looking

wrought iron railing and what a difference it has made!

Front entrance to basement:

Well area - Black sandstone coping stones to be

laid by Antonio on top of well walls

To be rendered & painted white on Aug. 17th

Base of well area to be tiled with black quarry tiles

Improved garden & newly laid patio

(view from first bedroom floor window)

Full view of patio from inside extension before sliding doors

are installed (kitchen space to right)

External view looking in to kitchen space (left) from patio

(I love my flush floor level with patio!)

Lovely kitchen space with very appealing

orange waste pipe (it's the 2010 "in" colour for plumbing

pipes :) the den is in the background (right)

Laying out planks and organising wood scheme

for the den and extension areas

3/4 finished laying wood floor

more wood laying process

(sliding doors were installed!)

Newly laid Iroko hardwood flooring in the

den & extension

Newly laid Iroko hardwood flooring first pass with sander

Completion of first pass of sander

(our fantastic flush floor & tracking system with sliding glass doors)

Den (bathroom & utility rooms thru door on right)

repeat

- the last remaining staircase to be sanded and varnished

- new under-the-stairs cabinetry

Looking forward to August 25th, 2010!!!!!!!!