You can pull off different floors if you are careful with patterns. 

We got a couple quotes from general contractors at the beginning of the process in the $250k range (fully finished) We plan to finish on the upper end, with stucco, recycled brick from the demolished garage, marble counters, hardwoods, and radiant heated floors.

Laying tile is a bit of an art form.Irregular patterns can increase the cost because they require more cuts, thus more time and materials.If you do these things, the floor should last a very long time.

Each application gets a discard, accept, or put in holding pattern status based on total points.  

You will see a pattern between neighborhoods and the rent to property value ratio.

Invariably, someone will provide a fact pattern that's faintly accurate but is frustrated because there is no one, simple Gordian Knot solution.

That's too long to be in a holding pattern. 

I look for the patterns between topics and where those topics meet is where the real knowledge is learned. 

Congratulations on being more capable of eloquently expressing an intricate thought pattern than 99% if the folks here!

It took a lot of what I call “Brain Training.”I set about on a very systematic process ‘retrain my brain‘ – to start to associate new thought patterns that replaced old beliefs that no longer served me.