Adventures in Renovation

I stayed up till 2:00 in the morning last night tiling my bathroom, but it was worth it. It's all done and ready for grouting! It looks awesome too. Well, it looks as good as it's going to get. I ran into some snags, but they worked out in the end.

When I laid everything out and cut all the pieces, I had a few lines draw to guide me. But when you lay down the mortar, those lines get covered up. So I misaligned something right from the beginning and didn't know it till stuff was slowly going out of alignment as I went along. I had to shift stuff, fudge other stuff and improvise some cuts here and there. Also, when I laid it out initially, I tried to make all the less than perfect parts fall under the tub. But somehow the stuff I laid last night looked best on the parts covered up by the tub.

I'm hoping the grout hide some of the seams between sheets but more likely my choice of dark grout will make some other mistakes stand out more. All those little mistakes would be less noticeable with a light grout, but I've already used a dark mortar underneath so I'd get ghosting if I went with a light grout now. Too late. Oh well, good enough. I'm caring about little stuff less and less as everything drags out longer. Just get it done!