The floor is laid and grouted, and looks exactly like I'd hoped!! Classic white and black hex tile with light gray grout, laid in a flower pattern with a border, just as it might have been when the house was built.
For such a small room, this took FOREVER. We spent several hours laying out the pattern and cutting the 12"x12" mesh sheets to fit that pattern. The bottom pic shows the full layout in the office (nice that our entire bathroom could fit there so easily!). If Bill hadn't thought of this plan, we might be tiling for the rest of our lives. Actually installing the tiles was a two person job, so we started Thursday night after Ruth went to sleep. We stopped around 10:30 when we realized we had several more hours to go. On Friday, we realized that we should have sucked it up and finished Thursday, because synching up with the previous day's work was difficult.
In the end, it all worked out. Grouting went pretty quickly today during Ruth's nap.
Next up, two projects: installing the beadboard (which, in Bill standard fashion, are actual boards and not big sheets) and tiling the shower.
For such a small room, this took FOREVER. We spent several hours laying out the pattern and cutting the 12"x12" mesh sheets to fit that pattern. The bottom pic shows the full layout in the office (nice that our entire bathroom could fit there so easily!). If Bill hadn't thought of this plan, we might be tiling for the rest of our lives. Actually installing the tiles was a two person job, so we started Thursday night after Ruth went to sleep. We stopped around 10:30 when we realized we had several more hours to go. On Friday, we realized that we should have sucked it up and finished Thursday, because synching up with the previous day's work was difficult.
In the end, it all worked out. Grouting went pretty quickly today during Ruth's nap.
Next up, two projects: installing the beadboard (which, in Bill standard fashion, are actual boards and not big sheets) and tiling the shower.
