We got started on Saturday morning with fairly high spirits. Frustration working with the tiles quickly set in. I had suggested cutting the mats down, but Brice didn't approve initially until his dad recommended it :-) When we had to cut the tiles frustration hit an all time high for the day, we were ready to be finished and cutting these tiny tiles was a huge pain. We had glass nippers that broke immediately, an angle grinder (which we were too afriad to cut our fingers off with it), and a tile saw (which we were also afraid of cutting off our fingers). By this point the dogs were feeling pretty neglected, so while I ran to Home Depot to buy another pair of glass nippers and a couple other things Brice gave the puppies some attention. One the way home a cute tiny puppy ran out in front of my car and it was almost dark. I stopped and she came right up to me. I looked around and no one was looking for her. So I took her home with me. I brought her in and the stuff I bought then headed back out to try and find her owner. Bailey thought that she was a new toy to play with. After about 35 minutes of so, I was able to locate her home and headed back to finish tiling. After a little more frustration and another trip to home depot we had cutting the tiles down. The solution: a large sacrificial tile and really strong double stick tape. Then Brice was able to cut the tiles on the tile saw.
Sunday it was time to grout. I didn't think about how much grout we were going to have with these tiles, so grouting took longer than expected too. I suggested that after I got a portion done, that Brice should follow behind me cleaning up the grout on the tiles. He didn't think it was necessary, because he was certain he would catch me. Some how I ended up being the one who was cleaning the side of the kitchen that was done first. It was hard to get the grout off, and Brice was sitting on the other side of the kitchen breezing through his section giving me a hard time about still being in the same spot. He then admitted that I was right and that he should have followed behind me cleaning up the grout.
Surprisingly we didn't get too annoyed with each other during the project. We were just ready to have it finished. We are happy with how it turned out, but I don't know if I will be working with glass mosaic tiles again anytime soon.
Tile...you can also see that our blinds are way too long (12 slats to be exact) which we finally fixed this weekend too
Right side of the kitchen
Looking into the kitchen
Left side of the kitchen
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