Itty Bitty Tiles

Now that the floor is done upstairs, we could finally finish the bathroom tile project we started almost four years ago.

When we tiled the 3rd-floor bathroom initially, we stopped a few inches short of the door threshold because we didn't quite know where the new floor would end. Consequently, there's been an ugly four-inch gap at the doorway that everyone had to step over. Hah! No more!

We cleverly stored some leftover hexagonal tiles in the garage, waiting for this day. The only trick was duplicating the correct black/white pattern. And the other trick is cutting tiles in half where they meet the wood floor. Fortunately, we also stored the tile nipper in the garage, and it makes short work of snapping these little ceramic coins in half.

Now we've got tiles right up to the edge of the doorway, with no gaps. The final step will be to grout around the new tiles so that the gaps aren't all white (like in the picture). That's probably just a one-hour project... which means it will take us six months to finish it.