Uh, it looks like a subway station....

Craig started installing the subway bathroom tile today..... it has a distinctly, uh, public-transit feel.

Now just because I work for the transit agency, doesn't mean I have to live it at home. Besides, we only have one underground station that I'm aware of.

OK, now, it looks very industrial because everything is primed in white. Even the floor was sealed with white primer in prep for tile installation. This should look a lot warmer with color on the walls and the vanity and floor tile installed.

The decorative tiles will be inserted about 5.5 feet off the floor, in a pattern roughly like this:

uh, not to scale (grin). If, hopefully, none of them break, we will have a few extra which would make a nice trivet or decoratively framed item.

I thought about putting the extras randomly throughout the tile work but they are not the same dimension as the subway tile, and that would be a lot of extra cutting, etc. L also thought we could build a framed mirror and put these in the corners. There are several ways to go.

Also, the front of existing house was sided today. I'm told it is lovely, but it's hard to tell when I never see the house in daylight during the week. Maybe I can get a quick shot in the morning, when at least it's starting to get light while I head out for bus. I guess the neighbor across the street came over to talk to L (her son owns the adjacent vacant lot), and said it was coming together nicely and she was glad because she was going to be seeing it a lot, being across the street. She also complimented us when we did a quick paint job about 17 years ago, to blue from a faded Pepto-Bismol pink. It's that godawful blue siding, old and decreipt when we BOUGHT the house in '91, that is now strewn around the yard, and in the dumpster.

I wonder if the decorative tile will be placed tomorrow.

Oh, and we lost the back door. If you're looking at the back of the house, you'd never know there was a door there. Weird.