Everything takes longer than you think!

"So I think we'll be done with tiling by mid afternoon."
later that day...
"Oh yeah we'll be done by 7 / 7:30"
later that night (or should I say the next morning)
"Is this considered burning the midnight oil?"


Upon hearing from a few people that tiling is a very easy DIY project and having access to our friends awesome tile saw, we decided to give it a go. It actually is pretty easy and turned out great (so far) but be forewarned....it's very time consuming! We really didn't expect the amount of time it would take to do all the prep work (tearing out the linoleum and subflooring, and puting down backerboard), cutting out a design (which Matt did awesome at!), and laying them all down. We actually thought we would be done with it last weekend but only finished the prep work. So after full day of tiling yesterday, we finally layed the last couple of pieces about midnight! But it looks great and I'm totally glad that we decided to to it. Now we just have to do some grout work! Might be a little late now (after the living room floor, the backerboarding, and tile laying), but I think I might invest in some knee pads for that...or at least find some to borrow! The knees are feeling a little abused today:)

Here's some photo documentation of the project-

The old floor...with a gallon of primer all over it to boot! It actually looks better in this state that it did after the attempted cleanup with acetone:)

After tearing out the old floor...all Matt and Matt Millward (thanks for all your help!)

Playing in the mud!

Had to get a belly shot in there since the little guy was part of the projcet...except for the closet where we didn't exactly fit so well:)

Finishing up just after midnight after working ourselves out to the garage!