Some decisions are easy. Kitchen, bathroom : tile. Tamsyn’s room, can’t be carpet (asthma) : tile or lino or wood. Other decisions are more difficult. Living room : carpet or tile? Tile is great when it comes to cleaning up red wine spills, but it’s hard and makes a room “ring” very easily. Carpet is quieter.
When we pulled up the existing carpets we found quite nice wooden floors in all three bedrooms. That makes it easy, sand down the wooden floors for Tanya’s activity room (the old small bedroom) and Tamsyn’s room. Carpet Jessica’s room and the space outside the bedrooms / bathroom.
The living room floor is half wood and half slasto (slate stone / leiklip). You can’t tile over a wooden floor. So carpet it is. But you shouldn’t carpet straight over slasto, although the previous owners did. The slasto is uneven, and the carpet will wear on the high spots (thanks Mike). A levelling screed is required. One that can be worked to a feather edge.
So then the question : bring the kitchen tiles out into the dining area / foyer, or bring the living room carpet out into the foyer / dining area? I’m going with the tile idea for now. (Edit : the dining room floor is also slasto).
(And in case you’re wondering the old activity room / new master bedroom has a nice wooden floor which we’re not doing anything to).
Anyway, we bought some tiles from CTM this weekend.
2 square meters ASA2010A San Marco Grey @ R45.90/square : Tamsyn’s bathroom floor.
14 square meters CCL20B1A Cleo Grey @ 59.90/square : Tamsyn’s bathroom walls.
32 Orchid Grey Listello border tiles @ 24.90/each (!) : Tamsyn’s bathroom wall border.
3 Orchid Grey Spotter @ 90.90/each (!!!!!) : Tamsyn’s bathroom wall.
I really should leave Tanya at home when it comes to buying tiles.
10 square meters LC680 Bahamas Beige @ 64.90/square : Kitchen floor.
4 Tunis Corner (110×110 inset tiles) @ 29.90/each : Kitchen floor.
If we tile the dining area etc I’d probably need another 13 squares of the Bahamas Beige.
Edit : Bought another 14 squares Bahamas Beige.
