A lot has happened in the past week or so. Things are finally at a turning point, as rooms are finally starting to become close to finished. First, we start with the bar room/den. One of the major changes that is being done to the Gist Restoration is the flooring. Originally, this house was meant to have carpet, and white carpet lined most of the house (and even over places where there should not have been carpet). Therefore, there are a lot of places where there are holes and cracked concrete are, thanks to tack strips that were in place. So, the guys at Tile Renaissance had to patch up with concrete. Since this is the first room that they are doing, they tried a color match (which is not perfect, but it's the den, so it's okay if it does not match perfectly) before the final grind and polish. Next, paint. The sheer number of colors borderlines on batshit crazy, doesn't it. And we didn't choose a single one of these colors. I caught the paint perpetrator in the act. We have spent well over $100 on samples alone, but we have what we are looking for, so that's good. But man, it's SO HARD to find the right mid century appropriate paint. We ended up finding a color that was originally in the house way back when, and color-matching thanks to the folks at Dunn-Edwards.
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In October 2016, Nathan & Rachel bought a 1958 Tom Gist custom home in the Mid-Century filled Wilshire Heights neighborhood in Tucson, AZ. This is our blog documenting the restoration! Archives
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