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November 18, 2007

Construction Daily

Over the past few weekends I've been a tiling fool, getting the tasting bar and foyer floors ready for our first big Thanksgiving. The first phase of the tiling was in front of the tasting bar. This actually want really well, as I used 6" squares in order to make the curve, with smaller 4" squares at the edges. The rationale behind using the 4" squares is that they are slightly thinner and make an easier transition into the Schluter Systems edging to create a nice slope from the wood floor to the Schluter metal to the 4" to the 6". Get it...?

Anyway once the area in front of the bar was done I went over to a hidden area to begin figuring out how to cut the large tiles. Something about the design was just bugging me, and after a while I figured out that if I offset each row of large tile it created a much more eye-pleasing design i.e. rather than making each corner match up, the corner of the first rown is at the middle of the next tile and so on and so forth. You'll see in the pics.

Next was the tiling in the foyer, and that took several days to get it done as there were quite a few challenging cuts to make around the air register, timberframe posts, and stairway to the catwalk. All in all I was really happy with how it turned out, now I just have to get it grouted before Thanksgiving!!!

Project hours = 46
Total hours = 778

Enjoy the pics

Posted by Stephen at November 18, 2007 7:38 PM