Adventures in Tiling

I am posting because I have many friends who are interested in my tile laying saga!  I am probably about half done with this project and am frankly exhausted!  I did nothing except laundry, dishes and tile work for 3 days!! And then today, long day of classes, walk, dinner, tile!!   I whine, I know!

So here is a bit of a rundown on what has been going on...........

Our bathroom needed some serious help, so I employed Carpenter Joe to get it done!!  We started with a pretty old, dated, pink bathroom with an old, leaking bathtub and a really cold shower!  Not a pleasant way to start or end the day.  The window has been replaced, the tub removed with some effort, apparently, new plumbing put in all over the place and now a new bathtub.

Out with the old

I will be done with pink now!

Demolition

Rebuilding begins

Bathtub disposal, the easy way!

It took a little doing, but the tub was loaded and gotten rid of!

New tub and beginning of tiles

I will say, there was not a seam out of place!  

I have picked out pretty much everything that is going into this room, and so I have a personal stake in this!  So I was elected to tile, much to my excitement and chagrin!  Never have done it before, other than the random stuff that I do with concrete sculpture!!  I am a random kind of person, so all that measuring and symmetry and precision is frightening!  I do enjoy using a nice power tool, though!

Little cubby for shower/tub

Grouting is fun- just keep saying it over and over.

Tile is fun, just keep saying it over and over

This is how far I have gotten as of Sept. 6!!!!

I have multiple days of work to do yet, but it is awesome to see it coming along.  And I promise I will not do away with the Mad-Accountant before it is all said and done!!  :)

Until next time, finding joy is sometimes really hard work!!  But keep after it!