Stripping…Paused
On the kitchen chimney breast, several bricks have lost their mortar. So, I need to order some custom-colored mortar. After that arrives, and I repoint, I can then resume brushing on shiny.
2014. EEK!
April 2025. On hold.
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Great progress!
I’m not sure they used colored grout. It almost looks like they used brick dust from the bricks as the color is such a good match. It looks like they used regular grout, then smeared brick dust over it to color it.
I kinda like that little arched cabinet in the 1914 photo. What every happened to that? For me, out of all the things in that photo, the EEK is the floor. That horrible congoleum. I had some even worse in my bathroom and kitchen when I moved into my 1922 house. It was ripped up and replaced with tile in the first few years I lived here. The shag carpet of mottled, blotchy browns was also ripped up and dragged out the front door almost as soon as I moved in. I let it sit on the crab grass in the front yard for several years, trying to smother it and deprive it of light. Didn’t work. nothing kills crabgrass.
OOps. That should be 2014 photo and Bermuda, not crab grass.
Never willingly plant Bermuda. You will regret it.
love love love the pink mortar! Still blew my mind when I found out they used to color mortar to match bricks more often.
What a great visual change – the original brick colour is so lovely!