The Winter Project

Over a year ago, Jim’s brother, Rob gave him a saw that cuts tile and has been asking me ever since if Jim has tiled the laundry room floor yet. There’s vinyl flooring in there now which doesn’t meet up to Rob’s standards. Jim & I always seem to have a winter project that we look forward to completing and I had been debating re-doing the powder room but am still formulating a plan in my mind so we decided to do the laundry room. We started out at Home Depot to price tile and decided to also tile the wall behind the washer, dryer & mud sink in a smaller, coordinating tile. When I went to my dentist in Florissant a month ago, I stopped by Home Decor Liquidators because I remembered they had a good selection of tile. Of course I couldn’t pick it out & load it in my car, so I brought Jim back with me and we bought some 18X18 ceramic tiles for about half the price of Home Depot. Then we went back to Home Depot and bought paint to cover the salmon-pink walls & southwest style border. I wanted something brighter so I got a light yellow which ended up being even brighter when applied to the walls so Jim has now nick-named it “the canary room”. Whatever, it’s only a laundry room!

We went back to Home Depot last night to get the smaller tiles for the wall and freaked out when we found out it would cost almost $500 and that didn’t even include the cap tiles. Since we didn’t want to put that much money into a laundry room we came home, went back to the drawing board and decided to tile a 4-1/2 X 5 foot section of the wall behind the mud sink.

We’re picking up Mom and meeting Jim’s dad & lady friend at his church for a fish fry tonight and will be going back to Home Depot to buy the tile afterwards. Hopefully, we’ll git-er-done this weekend. I’ll let y’all know how it turns out and try posting some before & after pictures.