Our small sun room off the kitchen now has a finished floor. We decided upon using Marmoleum tiles which are a fairly green product, even in blue and white. The diamond pattern was inspired by numerous examples from magazines showing Swedish floors. Finstad’s Carpet One provided the materials and we really appreciated all the help we received from store manager Greg Gardner in setting up the order.

Ron Redfern was invited by Greg to be our installer for the project and we discovered he is a tile man with an artistic touch and a nod toward perfection. He worked on and off for several days simply on the floor prep. The room had previously been the laundry room with a floor drain so the whole floor sloped toward a hole located right in the main walking path through the room. It took several applications to fill and level the floor and Ron worked at it until it was excellent. The new tile blends ever so smoothly with the existing kitchen wood floor that we are really impressed. Thanks Ron for your excellent work. (You can also check out Ron’s work on the floor of the Red Atlas coffee shop at the Ox.)

Julia and Delphi testing out the new floor.

Repurposed Dayton’s Department Store upholsterd chairs from 1982 find a fresh look in the sunroom. Cynthia (and I) selected and purchased the chairs for our first home in Fargo on North 8th Street. They have been dismissed from living rooms several times as we brought in newer pieces but somehow they never went away. Most recently they were discarded during our downsizing and move to Denmark and were grabbed by Julia. We bargained with Julia upon our return to Helena and now they are once again back home in our house.