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Saturday: two flooring stores, a walk
Jul. 13th, 2024 11:57 pmM. came over for a visit, but it was still kinda raining so we did not walk.
I did walk later by myself, chatting with my sister.
I went over to Maynard to Foley & Sons to look at flooring. I found the NRF Select Synthesizer, and it was kinda scratchy. They had very limited wool options. I did look at their cork flooring samples. I really liked this in their hardwood flooring:
https://boisbsl.com/en/floors/?essences%5B2%5D=2&grades%5B1%5D=1&couleurs%5B5%5D=5
It’s super pretty.
The folks at Foley were friendly but happy to let me explore by myself.
They had some marmoleum and Flortex, so that was great. They have a ton of tile, but that was a little overwhelming, and I don’t really want to pick that out because I’m at this point 100% anti-tile anywhere in this house as flooring.
I went home, had lunch, fed A., and went back with R., and we looked around together.
Later on in the day, we went over to Post Road Carpets. They have a ton of wool carpet options. I went over there for the Nourison, but wound up looking at a lot of Prestige Mills, and brought pix home for A. to look at. We found great options for her for pink world. I thought we were going to have to go with other than wool for her, but nope.
I then spent an unholy amount of time puzzling over the entry to the new house. There are two dominant entries in the room finishes table in the conformance set. One is for “BEDROSIANS "MAKOTO" 2.5" X 10" FLOOR TILE, KUMO GREY” (the other is for maple hardwood flooring, which I’m not getting into here). This turns out to be a lot like that front door lock that was specified (Emtek mortise smart lock) which turned out to be not a thing that exists. I _thought_ that the four way switch on the main stair light was not a thing, but I accidentally discovered that the Leviton switches we want to use actually _can_ be that (and more than four way, actually, wired, even. Just wild.).
Anyway. Bedrosians is a real tile maker, and there really is a Makoto style elongated subway tile of those dimensions and Kumo Grey is a real color, which distracted me from the fact that _it’s only a wall tile_. They don’t even want you using it on a counter (because, duh, someone will stand on it, and it will not survive that). I only finally noticed because I went to check the slip-rating on it and couldn’t find one. Because it’s not a walking surface. Because it’s a wall tile. D’oh. I want to know how anyone used this as the basis for a pricing round without noticing that. I’m not blaming them — I mean, I only just now noticed this and R. and I have been bitching about this tile choice for weeks now.
The architect envisioned the entry “room”, the connector to the main living room and the longer corridor to my sister’s side of the house as all being tiled together. I proposed hardwood, and that was shot down because with the various openings (to the garage, the front door) and the glazing, it’s not gonna be a very heat or humidity stable area, and hardwood doesn’t expand in more than one direction. Fair, but then cork. Architect didn’t like the cork idea, but I am pushing fairly hard for it, because it’s that, carpet or marmoleum. (I’m no on tile, independent of the ludicrous choice of a wall tile for all the flooring in the house that wasn’t hardwood). So then I proposed carpeting the corridor and the connector, and that was shot down on the basis of Too Many Transitions. That’s actually a really stupid argument, but I long ago gave up on trying to convince people who refuse to help me solve my problems. If you’re gonna be an obstacle, I’m gonna go over, under, around or through you and none of that requires me to convince you. While I’m waiting to see a sample of the Duro Design (I’ve already decided against most of the engineered cork options), I’m trying to figure out how to make this space work with carpet and/or marmoleum.
If it _had_ been tile (it will not be tile, just so we are clear), then there would have been mats and area rugs, because shit from outside does not magically depart your feet on tile. I ordered a Forbo Coral Brush entry mat, to see what that can contribute. There can still be mats and area rugs on carpet, or on marmoleum or cork. I was excited to see the Flotex at Foley’s, and I’m entertaining the idea of getting some kind of Fancy Underlayment and just using Flotex throughout the entry and the short connector, and then transitioning to carpet for the corridor that would continue through my sister’s side of the house. Cork product underlayment, wool felt, even memory foam are all potential candidates for making Flotex feel really nice underfoot. Alternatively, custom wool area rugs on top of marmoleum (or cork) are a possibility. It would look great, feel great, and you could remove the wool area rugs during times of year when things were going to be awful outside and replace them with area rugs that were more tolerant and/or machine washable. Or you could just have area rugs that were tolerant and/or machine washable, and that had a memory foam rug pad so they felt extra cushy. I ran these various ideas past R., in an effort to convey to him that we basically have some constraints and it isn’t clear which of the various options is a good way to meet those constraints. (The constraints being aesthetically pleasing, acoustically tolerable, not cold or hard underfood, and not instantly destroyed by sand, mud, melted snow, etc.)
A. was in a weird mood in the evening, so we picked out carpet for her bedroom and/or office, a Forbo color for her bathroom, and a lighted LED mirror for her bathroom. That was really fun! I asked her if there was such a thing as too much pink, and she said, I don’t know! Which I interpret to mean, I haven’t maxed out on pink yet.
I did walk later by myself, chatting with my sister.
I went over to Maynard to Foley & Sons to look at flooring. I found the NRF Select Synthesizer, and it was kinda scratchy. They had very limited wool options. I did look at their cork flooring samples. I really liked this in their hardwood flooring:
https://boisbsl.com/en/floors/?essences%5B2%5D=2&grades%5B1%5D=1&couleurs%5B5%5D=5
It’s super pretty.
The folks at Foley were friendly but happy to let me explore by myself.
They had some marmoleum and Flortex, so that was great. They have a ton of tile, but that was a little overwhelming, and I don’t really want to pick that out because I’m at this point 100% anti-tile anywhere in this house as flooring.
I went home, had lunch, fed A., and went back with R., and we looked around together.
Later on in the day, we went over to Post Road Carpets. They have a ton of wool carpet options. I went over there for the Nourison, but wound up looking at a lot of Prestige Mills, and brought pix home for A. to look at. We found great options for her for pink world. I thought we were going to have to go with other than wool for her, but nope.
I then spent an unholy amount of time puzzling over the entry to the new house. There are two dominant entries in the room finishes table in the conformance set. One is for “BEDROSIANS "MAKOTO" 2.5" X 10" FLOOR TILE, KUMO GREY” (the other is for maple hardwood flooring, which I’m not getting into here). This turns out to be a lot like that front door lock that was specified (Emtek mortise smart lock) which turned out to be not a thing that exists. I _thought_ that the four way switch on the main stair light was not a thing, but I accidentally discovered that the Leviton switches we want to use actually _can_ be that (and more than four way, actually, wired, even. Just wild.).
Anyway. Bedrosians is a real tile maker, and there really is a Makoto style elongated subway tile of those dimensions and Kumo Grey is a real color, which distracted me from the fact that _it’s only a wall tile_. They don’t even want you using it on a counter (because, duh, someone will stand on it, and it will not survive that). I only finally noticed because I went to check the slip-rating on it and couldn’t find one. Because it’s not a walking surface. Because it’s a wall tile. D’oh. I want to know how anyone used this as the basis for a pricing round without noticing that. I’m not blaming them — I mean, I only just now noticed this and R. and I have been bitching about this tile choice for weeks now.
The architect envisioned the entry “room”, the connector to the main living room and the longer corridor to my sister’s side of the house as all being tiled together. I proposed hardwood, and that was shot down because with the various openings (to the garage, the front door) and the glazing, it’s not gonna be a very heat or humidity stable area, and hardwood doesn’t expand in more than one direction. Fair, but then cork. Architect didn’t like the cork idea, but I am pushing fairly hard for it, because it’s that, carpet or marmoleum. (I’m no on tile, independent of the ludicrous choice of a wall tile for all the flooring in the house that wasn’t hardwood). So then I proposed carpeting the corridor and the connector, and that was shot down on the basis of Too Many Transitions. That’s actually a really stupid argument, but I long ago gave up on trying to convince people who refuse to help me solve my problems. If you’re gonna be an obstacle, I’m gonna go over, under, around or through you and none of that requires me to convince you. While I’m waiting to see a sample of the Duro Design (I’ve already decided against most of the engineered cork options), I’m trying to figure out how to make this space work with carpet and/or marmoleum.
If it _had_ been tile (it will not be tile, just so we are clear), then there would have been mats and area rugs, because shit from outside does not magically depart your feet on tile. I ordered a Forbo Coral Brush entry mat, to see what that can contribute. There can still be mats and area rugs on carpet, or on marmoleum or cork. I was excited to see the Flotex at Foley’s, and I’m entertaining the idea of getting some kind of Fancy Underlayment and just using Flotex throughout the entry and the short connector, and then transitioning to carpet for the corridor that would continue through my sister’s side of the house. Cork product underlayment, wool felt, even memory foam are all potential candidates for making Flotex feel really nice underfoot. Alternatively, custom wool area rugs on top of marmoleum (or cork) are a possibility. It would look great, feel great, and you could remove the wool area rugs during times of year when things were going to be awful outside and replace them with area rugs that were more tolerant and/or machine washable. Or you could just have area rugs that were tolerant and/or machine washable, and that had a memory foam rug pad so they felt extra cushy. I ran these various ideas past R., in an effort to convey to him that we basically have some constraints and it isn’t clear which of the various options is a good way to meet those constraints. (The constraints being aesthetically pleasing, acoustically tolerable, not cold or hard underfood, and not instantly destroyed by sand, mud, melted snow, etc.)
A. was in a weird mood in the evening, so we picked out carpet for her bedroom and/or office, a Forbo color for her bathroom, and a lighted LED mirror for her bathroom. That was really fun! I asked her if there was such a thing as too much pink, and she said, I don’t know! Which I interpret to mean, I haven’t maxed out on pink yet.