Finalizing Floor Finishes

We are getting mighty close to breaking ground, but until we get the green light from INAH, we’re in a holding pattern. This means that while our nails are getting awfully short from all the biting, we’re working with our contractor to finalize the build budget.

In order to do this, one task is to finalize our floor finishes. We’ve spent the past couple of days revisiting all our preliminary finishes and have made some solid decisions. Although we won’t get in to the nitty gritty details, we thought we would post these images to give you an idea of how our floor choices are coming together. And here is a link to our current plan just in case you want to reference it.

This black and white pasta tile currently exists in our front entrance courtyard. It will remain there. Additional black and white tile will be purchased and used in the adjacent media room.

We’ve posted about these reclaimed terracotta tiles before. All 1200 tiles will be cleaned up and used in our kitchen and back service room.

These limestone blocks will be used as transitional materials between rooms and doorways to help facilitate changes in material from, for example, pasta tile to crema maya.

Crema maya, one of three native limestones to the Yucatan, will cover our outdoor living room and dining room floors.

This fantastic pasta tile will be removed from what is to become our media room downstairs and transferred to one of our bedrooms upstairs (sorry about the terrible photo).

Our stairs and upstairs terrace landing will be made of unfinished hardwood similar in tone and texture to the ones pictured here. We have yet to pick the specific species, but understand there are several available for purchase.

This amazing monastery in Valladolid (which we will post about soon) has an incredible pathway made of limestone pavers. Similar pavers will be used throughout our garden and on our pool patio.