My Big Learning Curve About Historic Tile. Part 4.
The west vestibule of the Cross House, and with a porcelain geometric tile floor by the American Encaustic Tiling Company. The BEFORE image.
The AFTER image. Incredible! And this is only after being cleaned! Thank you John Maddox! The floor will look even better after receiving a coat of sealer (and after removing the paint drips!).
Since buying the Cross House a year ago, I have been…appreciative of the tile floors. I did not love or adore or treasure them. It seemed cool that they were original, and I certainly intended to respect them and do what I could to fill in missing sections.
But during this week of amazing discoveries, I have fallen in love — passionately — with my porcelain geometric tile floors. Now that I know I can truly restore the floors, and now that I understand how they will looked after being cleaned and sealed, well, wow. Wow. WOW!
Today, I mailed off a box to Olde English Tiles. The box includes all the tiles (various shapes and colors) I need more of. They will then give me a quote.
I am looking forward to the quote with great anticipation (and a little fear).
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I’m so excited about this process. We have zero original tile in the house : all of mine will be vintage or replica that I design on my own. I’m so excited for you!
But you and your husband do BEAUTIFUL tile bathrooms!
Thank you! It’s definitely one of my favorite things to do – we’ll have five bathrooms. But I think being able to restore and have an original floor for at least one of them would be super special. So I’m excited to live vicariously through you on this. 🙂
I agree with Amy, I enjoy living vicariously through you, since I would LOVE to live in a Victorian home. But I know I’m in the right mid-century house for me (the one you were looking for and couldn’t find, because I kept it). G:-)
You meant a lot of fear, right?