Just Stain It

Cooler weather turned us outside to build a pergola and paved patio area. Which was put on hold to build an updated boardwalk/dock. which was put on hold to hire someone to build a new seawall. Why can't life be simple? We don't know if we're working inside or outside. But somehow we just keep trudging through with a smile on our face.

So now we've turned our focus back inside. The living room is looking great with the progress we made in my last post. This week I painted the guest bathroom along with the hallway, in a lovely shade of green. All we need to finish is the guest bathroom floor. That will be enough progress to enable us to open our doors to friends and family.

Mi Miguel said, "No." When I asked him if we could go ahead and just tile the bathroom floor even though we can't purchase the tub, commode and sink that we want right now. We've busted our budget with the seawall. If we start tiling, the fixtures in the bathroom have to be considered and removed.

While out running errands today, it occurred to me, why not stain the bathroom floor for now? Why not? We're wanting to stain the master bedroom floor but we have no clue how to do it. Why can't we practice on the guest bathroom? Why can't we? And then when we're ready to buy the new fixtures we can tile over it and learn a new skill in the process. Seriously, how hard can staining concrete be? By the by, Mi Miguel cringes when I say, "How hard can it be?"

I called Mi Miguel and he is all in with this project. All in and all for it. This evening we'll start Youtubing and deciding what method and color we'll be doing. I'm excited because I've been wanting to stain all the floors in this fixer upper but Mi Miguel is pretty adamant about tiling the floors. 

I'm hoping once the intimidation is over with the staining process, he will want to do it for sure in the master bedroom. The minute I saw the concrete in the guest bedroom when we first started ripping up the carpet, I wanted to stain the concrete in that room and every room. While we have no clue how to do this fancy style in the picture above, one can dream. 

Who knows maybe we'll get really good at concrete staining like we did with the herring bone style tiling. One can certainly dream.