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July 14, 2007

Construction Daily

Continued working on the master suite tile today. Started the day with a bit of anxiety, as I seriously had NO IDEA how I was going to tile around the fireplace. I figured I'd just let my creativity take me where it may. So as I was considering one dumb idea after another, I noticed a piece of custom tile sitting on the window ledge. We had ordered some hand-made celtic tiles very early in the process but didn't want to overdo the celtic motif. So they ended up just lying around. Anyhow, one piece in particular had a very cool platinum finish to it, so I thought I could turn it on it's corner and put it right in the top center of the fireplace surround. Now the problem became figuring out how to cut a hole in the middle of a piece of tile, because I didn't want it to be in a seam. Got that figured out whilst the HGTV camera was rolling, and hopefully they'll include that scene because that was some tricky shit!

So once I had the little diamond in place I figured out a way to incorporate the diamond motif on the sides of the fireplace. Anyhow, the whole thing turned out pretty neat, and I'll be able to finish it up tomorrow.

Daily hours = 10
Total hours = 707

Posted by Stephen at July 14, 2007 7:59 PM