{"id":1586,"date":"2017-03-19T15:13:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T15:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2018-07-19T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:03:02","slug":"kitchen-floor-tiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/kitchen-floor-tiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Floor Tiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kitchen has been moving on over the last month.\u00a0 The plastering has been completed and the walls painted.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a &#8216;before&#8217; photo of the kitchen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/stripping-the-kitchen\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I took a couple of days off to give Rocco a hand laying the floor tiles and am exhausted now.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not used to doing work.\u00a0\u00a0 The tiles are Elon Mexican Saltillo Teracotta from Terra Firma tiles and still need to be sealed with many coats of linseed oil and waxed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/kitchen-tiles-450x345.jpg\" alt=\"kitchen-tiles\" width=\"450\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/kitchen-tiles-450x345.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/kitchen-tiles-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/kitchen-tiles.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/kitchen-tiles-624x479.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spent a lot of time going around tile shops but the current styles seemed drab.\u00a0 It is amazing that these hand made tiles were available for cheaper than the normal offerings. They are uneven under foot being hand made &#8211; I think flatter tiles might have been better\u00a0 The linseed oil makes the tiles darker:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/linseed-floor-tiles-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"linseed-floor-tiles\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/linseed-floor-tiles-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/linseed-floor-tiles-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/linseed-floor-tiles.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/linseed-floor-tiles-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course Mexican tiles are made from the most absorbent material known to man.\u00a0\u00a0 In the photo the 6th coat of linseed oil is soaking in. \u00a0 The 7th coat is soaking in more slowly so I must be nearly there..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/floor-tiles-drying-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"floor-tiles-drying\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/floor-tiles-drying-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/floor-tiles-drying-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/floor-tiles-drying.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/floor-tiles-drying-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kitchen has been moving on over the last month.\u00a0 The plastering has been completed and the walls painted.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a &#8216;before&#8217; photo of the kitchen here. I took a couple of days off to give Rocco a hand laying the floor tiles and am exhausted now.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not used to doing work.\u00a0\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}