It has been nine years since I laid the tile in my studio and only a couple of times previous to that but today I started the tile work in the house. We had considered hiring professionals for the task, but because we wanted things somewhat fancy it pays me well to do it myself. We also get exactly what we want. We hunted down the tile saw stashed out in the shop along with some tile laying tools and set to work.
Janis' office was the first room to get the treatment. A built in desk will wrap around three of the walls so the pattern was kept to a minimum and only in the center of the room. We opted for nine small diamonds in a contrasting darker brown. Simple but elegant.
I left the finicky edges for tomorrow as it is much easier to do it in two stages.
The first day (four hours) of tiling went smoothly. It all came back to me in a hurry just like riding a bike.
-grampa dan
