Well, it is actually happening… there are tiles on the wall!! What a journey I’ve had with this project. Laying tile is not at easy as it may seem. Follow the steps I took to lay the tile after the jump!
step by step…
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May 16th, 2009
my faithful and trusty sidekick cole!
After doing so many panels of this mosaic I’ve found some “best practices” that would be helpful to know at the onset if you ever want to do this type of tiling. I have been using self-adhesive drywall tape to stick the tiles to (this lessens the time it would take to put a drop of glue on the back of each tile). The tape I found came in a 3″ wide roll so I cut 1 foot long pieces and stack 3 on top of each other (as you see after the jump).
progress (little, but still some!)
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April 29th, 2009
As promised, some pictures of Thomas’ beautiful landscaping in our backyard…
new pictures to come!
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April 28th, 2009
I’ve been slowly working on some more of the tiles and will be posting pictures tonight! I’ve had some trouble with trying to figure out how to lay everything out and cut everything correctly, but I think I have it under control.
Also, a few months ago Thomas did a little bit of landscaping off of our back patio and our little bushlets (as my friend Emily from work calls them) are flowering!! Its so exciting! I’ll take some pictures of those as well and post them tonight. Be on the lookout!
preliminary stuffs
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April 21st, 2009
Okay, so here is my idea. I want to tile a 6″ border around the tube to give the bathroom some personality. Some would argue that its orange paint job is all the personality it needs, but I want a little extra something. Here is my plan (ignore the bad quality, I need to perfect my “blog-picture-taking” abilities)…