Flooring, flooring, and you guessed it more flooring

So, have about a third of the main room on the first floor done with parquet tiles glued in place. I've in all likelihood made this process harder on myself than needs be by "painting" woodglue on to the base and then placing my pieces on and holding two rows down at a time with a larger piece of wood and old college textbooks to weight them down... Once I get done gluing I will also be sanding theses down. Good tip: wipe the sawdust off don't blow it. When you wipe, the sawdust will help to fill any of the holes or cracks between tiles. Then it's a simple matter of sealing the floor, sanding, sealing again and sanding again with a finer grit paper, and repeat for a third time again moving to a finer grit sandpaper. My whole goal on this is so that I don't see any sign of the varnish other than the sheen...

While waiting on the last two rows I worked on to dry, I figured I may as well start laying out the design of the kitchen area floor. Which also meant I had to figure where it was I was going to put my divider walls for the dining area. Once I had figured that and marked the spot on the floor with pencil I then chose two colors of tile to put down. The tiles I used are the vinyl peel and stick floor tiles put out by Greenleaf. These are commercial grade, but they do suggest to use some added glue since there won't be anyone heavy enough walking on them to keep them down. As it is I used a light tan and a brown looking tile, which for being the first I've used these -- have to say I like how they've turned out.

For now though it's back to figuring what I'll be doing for the dining room floor area, and of course continuing to glue down the living area's floor. Btw, the pattern I chose for the living room floor is called a sawtooth pattern.. While the coloration of both photos today don't really show true to life, if I use the flash they'll both look all white. So all I ask is keep your fingers crossed that I can do this and get it to where I see it at in my mind(fingers crossed)...

Jinxed myself!

Still want to try and get at this daily -- so silly me what do I do, get involved in working on the houses and let midnight slip on by me! lol Ah well, going to post this now to update on progress so far. Not only did I get 144 1 inch square tiles scored and stained last night, I also managed to get primer on the foundation for my Victorian... and drum roll please -- yes that's right have started with the drywall mud for a stone foundation. From looking at my inspiration houses they didn't use "normal" sized bricks, but apparently much larger stone hewn to distribute the weight of the house. While I won't be building the foundation out, it should hopefully look pretty accurate for the period.

For today, I'm still gluing all the parquet pieces in place for the main sitting area -- or in today's time what I suppose would be the living room. I've also settled on flooring for the kitchen, which will look more like marble. Still have yet to figure if I'll be doing parquet in a different pattern for the dining area or what will go in there. Don't know if I mentioned this previously but since the first floor is so open, I'm planning on making a couple of half walls to divide the kitchen and dining area. Just seems the house was let go for so long I'd really like to do right by it with this rehab. Have also gotten a couple of document frames at one of the local dollar stores. Reason being as I've learned from the Greenleaf forum members, the glass is easily cut to make new windows for the miniature houses. I like this idea a lot, because if you have small children playing with them the acetate windows get dirty fast. While these may still get dirty, they'll be a lot easier to clean.

Okay, thinking that's enough of an update for now. Glue should be set on the last two rows of tiles I just glued, just 10 more rows to go. Hopefully will update with a pic once the floor is completely glued down, varnidshed, sanded, etc...