Feeling Tiled

One hundred and eighty square feet of subway tile. 1,440 individually placed tiles!

Papa k placing the baseboard titles.

Pete stacking the tile up the walls.

The first complete wall. Next, four feet high subway tile around the entire bathroom.

Voila! (minus grout)

Plan Ahead

Planning ahead made the difference with the bathroom floor. The diamonds centered in the entry ways, perfect half tiles run along the full wall and full tiles line up along the shower entry. Not only does it look good, but waste was minimal. A little planning went a long way.

The week began with a linoleum floor with two layers of 3/4" plywood and a layer of 1/2" plywood to patch the holes from replacing the plumbing and floor joists. The plywood was also used to level the floors between the two rooms that are now one. The week ended with a finished bathroom floor; of course, after many layers: radiant electric heat pad, leveling cement, uncoupling membrane (the orange pad), thinset, Carrara tiles and light gray grout.

The original floor with patches.



Papa k putting down the first tiles.

Pete with his mad spacing skills.

Exact half tiles down the full wall - perfection.

Doing the backsplash

For this swimming family, we are usually doing the backstroke, but this week it was the backsplash. And, it came out as perfect as the koshak family's perfect strokes - ha! :)

3x6 Carrara marble tiles, bright white grout - love it!

A beautiful corner and mini bar focal point created by papa k.