Purchasing an older house is usually seen as a contentious decision. The truth is that lengthy repairs will be required in such house before the inside is fit for habitation. Such prospects, however, did not dissuade one British family.
They purchased a large home that was built during Queen Victoria’s reign and they loved it so much in general, but the interior design was somewhat antiquated, and the hallway’s floor was entirely carpeted. They almost immediately decided to take it out.
The family was taken aback to find peculiar tiles beneath the top layer of flooring.
It was discovered that this was an 1875 coating made by the Minton plant. His creations adorned numerous churches around the United Kingdom, including Liverpool’s storied St. George’s Hall.
At auction, one of these tiles may get 700 pounds. The family council, however, determined that nobody would sell the tiles. Rather, the decision was made to restore the floor by the new owners of a whole antique estate.
The family posted the outcomes of their in-home historic preservation endeavor on TikTok and people loved it. They acknowledged that restoring the floor required several hours of work and that nearly all of the tiles needed to be redone in order to adequately replace the lost sections.
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