Effectively, I didn’t meant to be away for many of this week. Fact be informed, I used to be so pissed off with how the work on the toilet was going, and I simply couldn’t deliver myself to return right here and speak about tile once more. I’m so sick of tile. I’m uninterested in speaking about it, photographing it, running a blog about it, putting in it…the whole lot. I got here so near calling a professional in to complete it up for me, however I’m actually decided at this level to complete the tile myself. I don’t know why, however the extra I get pissed off with it, the extra decided I turn into.
However what occurred this week is that I had a imaginative and prescient in my thoughts for the way I needed to make use of the glass tile within the bathe, and it simply didn’t work out prefer it appeared in my thoughts. So I spend yesterday undoing the whole lot I had executed on Monday and Tuesday.
The final time I confirmed you the bathe tile progress, it appeared like this…
My thought was to do one horizontal stripe of the glass tile round the entire bathe. However as I defined final time, there was no means I might exactly line up a stripe of glass tiles contained in the bathe to completely match the glass tile within the wainscoting on the toilet partitions. So I made a decision to make them drastically and deliberately offset.
So I added just a few extra rows of the white tiles, after which added a row of the glass tiles outlined with the brushed brass Schluter strips…
At first, I used to be not sure about it, however I believed that was simply because it wasn’t grouted. The looks of tile can change fairly drastically as soon as it’s grouted.
So after letting the mortar dry for twenty-four+ hours, I grouted it to see if that will make an enormous distinction. That is the way it appeared proper after I grouted it, so the glass tiles had been nonetheless hazy.
So right here’s the deal. I actually did love the way it appeared up shut. As in, once I’m standing within the bathe, I cherished that stripe, I cherished the brushed brass accent, and I cherished the shiny glass. Up shut.
However once I stood again within the room and checked out it, I didn’t find it irresistible. It simply didn’t appear so as to add something. If I’m going to go to the difficulty of doing that in the remainder of the bathe, it wants so as to add a spectacular accent, however this simply didn’t.
So I spent all of yesterday eradicating all the tiles right down to the row under that accent stripe. And that was NOT a simple job. Let’s simply say that the mortar I used is excellent mortar. ? And as soon as I had the tiles eliminated, I had to make use of my grinder to get all the mortar off of the wall. And within the course of, it additionally eliminated the waterproofing membrane that was on the wall. So now I must recoat that a part of the wall with the waterproofing membrane earlier than retiling. Thank goodness I had solely executed one wall earlier than realizing I didn’t actually need that design on the partitions!!
So after yesterday, it seems to be like this…
So mainly, my progress for the entire week is that I completed up three rows of tiles and added seven new rows of tiles on one wall of the bathe. I additionally grouted these tiles as a result of I used to be uninterested in taking a look at darkish grout strains. Oh, and I did get the “baseboard” tiles put in on the 2 different lengthy partitions. I simply have yet one more wall (the brief wall on the opposite facet of the mural wall) to complete up with the “baseboard” tiles. In order that’s my complete week’s price of progress. At this charge, I could have this bathe executed by March 2022, and the toilet executed by August 2022. ?
Hopefully not, although. Now that I’m simply going with stable white within the bathe (sure, I do know a few of you might be saying, “I informed you so!” proper now ? ), I feel I can get the remainder executed a lot sooner. I hope. I do know we’re all getting uninterested in listening to about bathe tile (and I’m so uninterested in working with it), and able to transfer on to one thing else!!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can study extra about me right here.
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