203#3 My apartment now

Well in the last post you saw the bathroom coming along after the final paint color, the wood floor being prepped for the floor paint, and I've got a few more pictures of the lead up work, but I still haven't gotten around to taking final pictures unfortunately. I'll take some soon and get them up here even though I haven't finished everything yet. I've mostly been moving my stuff in and dealing with other building problems since then.

Because I ended up spending more time and money on this apartment than I originally intended, I couldn't justify renting it to the tenant that I had lined up for the same price that I originally quoted her. We found a solution to that problem though by having me move up to the new apartment and her moving into 205 #1 where I had lived for the last year and a half. Win-win.

Bathroom with final paint color

Here was the last wood floor prep picture:

And here is one after the first coat of floor paint where I went back to fill additional nail holes that I had missed the first time.

Even though I'm moved in and most of the gaps are filled, I still might go back and do a few more gaps. Overall I'm really happy with the way that it turned out. I'm still figuring out the best way to clean it, as dirt gets into the cracks. It's making me want to do another coat to even out the deepest cracks and I probably will in the highest traffic areas once the thresholds are installed and ready for paint as well.

Another set of pictures that I have are from the kitchen and hallway floors between the painted hardwood.

Originally I had to correct the subfloor in one of the hallways:

But this and other places in the subfloor weren't completely flat so I used this self-leveling compound to even it out more. In hindsight, I didn't do the greatest job and spending more time for a really flat subfloor would have been worth it. Here it is as it was drying (it looks like I just spilled chocolate milk on the floor):

After it dried, I tried to make sure it was as smooth as possible by painting it with kilz in order to ensure that the surface was smooth enough for vinyl tiles' sticky backing. The self-leveling compound would flake as I walked on it after drying so without the kilz it wouldn't have stuck very well. I also used a spray adhesive on the areas that I had the most  reservations about. Here are a few pictures from in the middle of installation:

The 24x12 inch tiles and fake stone look turned out really good. The quality of my subfloor makes it undulate a little in places however, but overall I liked how it turned out.