Bathroom: Day 2

So actually day 3, I spent one day getting the wall ready for tile but that didn't take too long.

Mixing the thin-set mortar. 

Yeah, I was using a wooden spoon.  Its not the ideal tool.  Mitch got a drill attachment that mixes it, so when we did the main tiling I didn't have to mix it by spoon every time.  Here is the wall with the joints taken care of.

We also tore down more of the wall tile because it will be continuous with part of the tub tile.

And now with backer board in place:

Ok, time to tile.  The tiling stuff came to a total of about $140, with an extra $100 for a saw to cut the tile.  We found out after we bought tile spacers that subway tile actually doesn't need them.  Luckily they're cheap.  Now we know.

Here are some sequential progress shots.  We are doing a basic white subway tile, with a little black and white detail in there.  We will be tiling the floor with that pattern, and a ring of it will continue around the room.  There will be a black border on top eventually.  We just got the one wall done today.

There will be little corner shelves where those gaps are.

Rogue was very sad that we tiled all day instead of playing with her.  She brought her toy into the bathroom and kept trying to convince us to throw it.

I feel like now we have a much clearer idea of how to tile efficiently and I think the rest will go quickly from here.  We still need to pull all the rest of the pink tile off,  put up backerboard, and tile.  Oh, and tiling the floor.  Oh, and removing the rest of the brown tile from the built ins, sanding, and painting.  And painting the walls.  So yeah, the bathroom isn't near done yet.  But there is progress.