The remodeling of the mudroom and adjacent bath started on Thursday, and has progressed quite rapidly with tile installation completed late Friday night. Once tiles were laid and allowed to set for 24 hours, grout was added. Since the installation was in a mud room, the grout color selected was a medium grey instead of a lighter tone which would have gone well with the various colors in the travertine tile.New baseboards will be installed, and all old tired woodwork will be primed with an oil based primer. Previous owners of the home covered all the woodwork with an oil based paint, which could be covered with latex now, except they did one more thing no one should ever do. The previous owners sealed all of the painted woodwork with a shellac or varnish of some type to keep paint from chipping. What other reason would have driven them to add varnish as a finishing coat on top of the paint?
As a result, before painting any woodwork in the house it is first lightly sanded then primed with an oil based primer, allowed to dry, and then painted with a Benjamin Moore semi-gloss latex paint. Though I thought all of the priming had been done, alas I was wrong, so today is oil based primer day. Doors and windows will be opened to allow the fabulous fumes to escape. We are one day closer to an updated mud room and bath completion. I can't wait to show it to you or see it myself, for that matter.
Photo attribution: somewhatfortyplus
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