Tile Death Do Us Part

A long time ago, we put in new kitchen counters (laminate, none of that granite that every flipped house in San Diego has).  It was such an improvement over the old counters (and sink) that we wanted to start using it immediately, and never stop. So 6 months passed before we got around to finishing it, by adding a tile back-splash. Meanwhile, it looks like we got a little water damage - oops! The thing is, neither Jymm nor I had ever worked with tile. It looked scary. Easy to mess up. Technical. Perhaps Best Left to Professionals. 

The first few tiles have been placed. Jymm puts them on, and Alan uses a Sharpie to color the edges black. 

We were crazy. It turns out Jymm's baking skills really came in handy- spreading that stuff you use to attach the tiles to the wall was just like spreading icing on a cake (Note: it doesn't taste like icing). Laying the first course of tiles across the one wall took maybe thirty minutes. The grout (really silicon caulk in this case) took another 45 minutes. Then we were done!

Done! (Except for 90% of the grouting. And the other wall).

We had such a fun time doing this we've decided to tile the whole house- walls, ceiling, everything. Pretty soon the whole place will look like you've walked into a Tetris game- awesome! Of course, we haven't yet finished the kitchen. And we still have to tile the shower in the master bath. So...we'll see how we feel about it after all of that.