More Tile

Once again Emma and I had a weekend of tiling on our schedule! We started Saturday morning with tiling the back splash for the granite counter that we finished last weekend. That went pretty quickly which was nice.

Then came the travertine tile for the floor. We bought 18X18 tiles and planned on cutting them in half to install them in a nicer pattern. Since our floor was pretty small it would have looked odd having such large tiles.

Our wet tile saw was on the small size so I had to build a jig to support and cut the tiles in half. It worked ok but wasn't perfect which meant that the tiles were pretty close to being the same size but still a tiny bit off which made it all the more fun for Emma to install.

Before we installed the tile we had to seal it so the mortar would not stain it during install. It took a while to dry so we had to wait to start the install for the day. Emma managed to get about 4 rows of the 9 installed on Saturday night before we decided to call it a day.


Sunday morning we got up first thing and started with the work again. It went somewhat smoothly but of course had its issues. All in all it went well and we actually managed to get done early in the day and take a long lunch break to eat and relax a bit.




We spent the rest of the day cleaning and recycling all the cardboard from the cabinets and returned all the stuff we bought that we ended up not needing which was nice since we had a good amount to install.

Earlier in the week I worked on installing the high counter on the cabinets that are outside the kitchen. It also went well but took time measuring and re-measuring to make sure I didn't make a wrong cut with the circular saw. I knew I couldn't mess up since I only had one shot at it. The results turned out nice and is really a nice addition to the kitchen.