EVEN MOAR TILEZ

I started off the day like I start off almost every day -- driving to Home Depot. There I picked up a transition (that I think I'll return in favor of a different one), and a... thingie? It's a metal strip that's designed to fit over the top row of tiles. I'm not sure if I'll use it, but it struck me as an interesting possibility. The problem with the repeating pattern of tiles is that the end can seem arbitrary, so people usually finish them with a row of something different, like a bullnose tile, or something decorative. That's the traditional way to do it, but we're going for modern, so either nothing, or a metal strip (that way, you don't have just naked tile edge at the top). It's an aesthetic question, though, not a structural one.

The morning was unusual in at least one respect -- we started the day with intense humidity (the weather report literally said "humid" as the weather condition), and every window in the house was fogged over like so:

After I was back from Home Depot, I got to work cutting tiles, which produces an insane quantity of incredibly fine powder. Between the humidity and the powder, the normally invisible spider webs around the garage became strangely present to the eye.

After an hour or so of cutting tiles, the usual: mixing a load of thin-set and making rapid progress. The north wall is finished (except for that final, top row -- I need to decide about the metal strip before I place it, because the strip needs to be embedded behind that topmost row). And the west wall is begun. It's starting to change the character of the room -- now, some of my photographs are registering with a more correct color balance:

And sometimes, we get the more yellowy version:

That's it for today. Back of the envelope calculations show 16 square feet are done, so it's just over a third of the way done. For the record, when the tiling is done, there is the grouting (that's one day for the whole room, though), the walls need to be painted, and I will need to see about installing the giant (and very heavy) mirror from IKEA -- the question is whether or not I can find studs in that wall that are correctly spaced to support it. Then we can get to the big event: the toilet installation.