Tile

I have always liked tile flooring and tile back splashes and tile anything....but now I have a greater appreciation for them! As you know a couple weeks ago we tiled our kitchen and bathroom floors and let me tell you, it was rough!! It took 4 times longer to do than we thought, cost almost twice as much to do....but it looks 20 times better than the crappy linoleum floor we used to have!

We started on Sat the 13th and didn't finish until the 21st. It took longer than we expected because we didn't realize all of the things you have to do when you tile. PLUS we learned that the way we thought we could do it would not work. Who knew our linoleum floor was glued down by the force of God....Who knew you cant tile directly on top of plywood flooring?...Who knew that we wouldn't have a usable kitchen for over a week?? Not us! :)

We would not have been able to do this with out the help of some friends! So here are some shout-outs... Thank you Michell & Kelly for your time, muscles, knowledge, destroying your hands and being sore for us! Thank you to Ben & Abby for the tile saw...it saved us money and frustration! And thank you to the man at Lowes that probably saved our tile floor from breaking in 2 months by telling us we needed cement board for the floor.

Well, here is a before picture (I forgot to take one so this is from when we bought the house)....

Before

Michelle & Kelly stripping the linoleum

Kelly laying down cement board

Eric screwing down the cement board

Me happy to be finally laying tile after 3 days of working on the kitchen.

Eric's job was to cut tile with the saw Ben & Abby gave us

After one nights work of tiling

The finished product!

TA DA! No more ugly linoleum!!