Weekend work

Wanting to do too many things at once--but I'm waiting on all the contractors for the stairs, so am doing what I can elsewhere. This weekend: tried various floor treatments for the downstairs appartment kitchen and bedrooms. I really wanted to remove all the tiles and paint the concrete, but it took an hour to scrape off one of the vinyl? tiles in the bedroom, at which point I decided that my time is more valuable--scrubbed and cleaned the floor, tested concrete primer and paint on four of the tiles (OK, I know it's for concrete but sometimes you have to try something to prove yourself wrong--it didn't work, after 24 hours the paint still hadn't properly dried, and by Sunday morning it was dry but scraped off when I touched a fingernail to it)... so I went to buy a load of peel-and-stick vinyl tiles. They are not a permanent or ideal solution, but right now the money has to be spent on more critical projects, and this will be a good, clean fix for a while. The concrete paint will work on the downstairs kitchen floor--it had different tiles which, while sticky, were not as permanent an installation as those throughout the rest of the lower floor.

Also primed the inside of the hall closet :-)