Bathroom Tile Project: Day 4 "The 95% Reveal!"

    Okay, home stretch.  Here is where we are at after 4 glorious days of working.  She is so beautiful!  We are not totally done, but we hit a few roadblocks that will take a bit of time to fix.  Until then, here is the picture.

After the jump, you can see the whole process of mixing and applying grout, organizing tiles and putting up the mop board as well as some unexpected problems.

Bathroom Tile Project: Day 3 "Tile Installation"

    My sister's idea for the title of this post was Day 3: "Party in the Bathroom Tile USA featuring Tiley Cyrus".   Other ideas brainstormed were "The Tile High Club", "Goin' a Tile a Minute", "Tile 'n Out", and "The I-tile-ian Job".   Or what about "Tiler Perry's Big Fat Tilin' Barbeque Weekend"?

After the jump you can see all of the ups and downs of day three.  Finally, we are seeing some progress!

Bathroom Tile Project: Day 2 "Unexpected Concrete"

    Day 2 of our bathroom tiling adventure was a rough day.  We started out by going to Lowe's to pick up cement board.  The plan was to lay that over the existing cement and adhere it with some sort of adhesive.  That way we could raise up the floor and have a level surface.  When we got to Lowe's we learned that you can only screw cement board into something.  And that something could not be cement. Womp, womp.  We made some calls and got advice.  Unfortunately that advice was that we would have to mix and pour a concrete floor on top of what we had.

Here is the patch for the sink and the concrete that we poured.  Plus I'm giving you a sneak-peak at what the tile looks like.

After the jump, you can see all the fun (and no-so-fun) details of Day 2.

Bathroom Tile Project: Day 1 "DEMO TIME!"

    On Thursday, my pops arrived in Chicago and we got right down to business tearing up tile.  Here is the before view of the bathroom so we can all remember where we were starting.

    Ugh.  This tile has been the eye sore of our place since day 1.  I have invested far too much time trying different cleaning products in the hope that it will make the tile white and beautiful.  I have scrubbed on my hands and knees with a grout brush, bleach, cleanser, tile products, you name it.  I shudder just looking at this picture.

After the jump you can see the whole demolition process and all of the unexpected things that we found under that nasty tile.

The not-so-glamourous side of crafting

To say that project-ing is always fun would be a total fib.  When tiling, painting, gluing, etc there is usually a moment when I want to give up or take short cuts.  Usually crafting has a lower frustration level, but this project is really giving me trouble.

This is my annoyed face.