When we came to live here in 2003, this is what the front terrace looked like — after we had cleaned it up! When we first saw the house in 2002, the terrace was a real mess. At some point, it had been covered with gazon artificiel (known as "astroturf" in the U.S). One of our first jobs in 2003 was to rip that up and haul it all to the dump. It was soaking wet. The black adhesive that had held it down was not a pretty sight.
We had tile laid on the terrace in August of 2003. It looked like this until recently — the photo above is one I took in 2011. More and more tile scracked, came loose, and got stains on them over the past 12 years, so we decided to have the terrace renovated this year.
Now it's going to look like this. The tile is slightly different. The job is finished now, but the tile contractor advised us not to walk on the new tiles or put our grill and furniture back out there until Monday.
Beautiful!
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London? How is it?
DeleteOhhhhhh, that is great! You two had such great vision when you bought that house. You've put such thoughtful renovations in place, and this is another wonderful example.
ReplyDeleteIt took a while, but your patience paid off- it's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWe started the negotiations with contractors nearly three years ago. We fired one contractor who kept us waiting for two of those years. This we found thanks to a new neighbor told us last September that he would do the job in April. And he did.
DeleteLooks nice!
ReplyDeleteLooks great. Looks like these are larger tiles than before.
ReplyDeleteI think they are. I'll have to ask Walt. He found and ordered them.
DeleteNice improvement. What a relief to have a finished job after starting the project three years ago.
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