June 24 - Tile Floors

It's been my habit to go out to the hostel construction on Thursdays when I'm at RFIS to facilitate a small group after school.  But the last small group we had was June 7.  I went out again once the 14th I think, but camera batteries were dead, so no pics.  Besides, there really wasn't much new to report then.

In the past week the tile has been going in on the floors, and rooms are being painted, so I just had to go see it!  Today (Sunday) we went out in the afternoon to see how it looks now.  Here's what I saw...

Outside walls almost all plastered (still some work left on the posts); front stairs begun.

Let's take a closer look at those stairs to the front entrance...

Front door entrance up close

Railing is up, 1 set of stairs done.  Another set of stairs will continue down in this direction, and another set will turn back toward the right to a parking area about where those drain pipes are.  The drain pipes are coming out of the mud room to the right of the front entrance.  Until those steps are all done, it's still too hard to use that entrance.  So let's go around the corner to see Stoker's apartment.

Scott Pyles and Ron looking over the building.

From left to right there's the lower level entrance to a game room (see below).  Then there's the main entrance to the lower apartment where Stokers have already begun moving their stuff in where it'll be stored during their year of home assignment. So the apartment is locked now.  Notice there is glass in the windows!  And on the right are the upper and lower verandas with lights and painted ceiling. 

Now let's go in that door on the left.  I haven't been in there much to take pics as there's a saw in there, and the workers are usually busy in there.  Besides there's been a big pile of sand in one corner.  So it hasn't looked this good before ...

Game room, utility room and hallway - bottom level

To the left front is a game room.  The room behind it is where the washing machines will go.  See the clothes chute in the ceiling?  That comes down from the mud room bathroom.  Then to the right is a hallway to a store room on the left just before the main stairs up to the lower bedroom level.

lower level bedroom or study

The bedrooms on the lower level have been painted and are partly tiled.  On each floor of bedrooms there are 3 dorm rooms and 1 study.  One of the "studies" will be for doing homework.  The other one could be a guest room for visiting parents, or be a lounge for quiet comfey reading, or a sewing / craft / hobby room.  We'll see what the hostel residents decide to do this fall.

Continue up to the upper level of bedrooms.  This is the bedroom on the top level with those windows facing the RFIS wall.  To the left there's a veranda.  Due to scaffolding and plastering on the stairway I am not usually up on that floor, so I forgot to take a pic of the veranda.  Next time.


Upper level bedroom with tile mostly done

 Between bedrooms there's a hallway with a bathroom off it, but it doesn't look like much yet - just a room with holes in the floor.  And there's a door to the stairway landing.  Looking down the stairs from that landing you see the great room (living/dining room)...



Living room / dining room (to the right of the pole)

  Door at the left is to the veranda.  Next one is the hostel parents bedroom.  Door at the right is the office.  Not seen but further to the right is the kitchen door.  Notice the railing is done and painted.  Go downstairs, turn left and turn to look at the room.

Tiled floor!  Light fixtures are in too.

So there's the office door at the left, kitchen door, the dark square in the wall is where the laundry chute is (access from the dining room and from the bathroom on the other side of the wall), Ron, and then the front entrance/mud room.

Veranda off the great room and master bedroom - tiled!



Master (hostel parents) bedroom tiled.

Inside to the right there's a big closet, then a bathroom and a door from the bathroom to the office on the other side of it.

Ok, I see that I failed to get a picture of the tiled kitchen.  It's the same tile as the living/dining room (or "great room").  Cabinets are being made now.  

See? I told you there had been big changes - visible changes since my last post.  And all this tile has gone in just in the last few days.