Very First Tiling Job

I have had this wild hair to do something with the window seats in our house. I love the window seats but they need some work. I was visiting a neighbor and they had tiled their window seats. Hmmm....peaked my interest so inquiring minds had to know more. I talked hubby into giving it a try. Mind you we have never done any kind of tiling. When we moved in and began replacing the pink, and oh my were they pink, carpets we had experts come in and lay the tile! I figured this was such a small job we could do our research and plow forward. Here is the documentation of this venture! And just a small point to add, we will be doing more!

We of course needed some tools so we rented a wet saw for the cutting.

I couldn't let the hubby have all the fun!

I have to say we were pretty impressed with ourselves on our template making and cuts. Not to shabby for having no idea what we were doing!

Mixing the mortar. This was a bit difficult since we didn't have the right tool to go on the end of the drill but we improvised and it worked out just fine! It looks a little like vanilla pudding!
Ready to go!

The next day it was time to tackle the grouting! I think it looks like chocolate pudding! All my images are of food type items. Wonder what that means? LOL

Grouting the tile! This was actually really fun!

Wiping the grout! Messy but still fun!

I changed to a different glove. The big orange gloves were way to big and bulky!

The finished product!

The tile with the molding!

I have to say, we are pretty proud of ourselves for jumping in and tackling this project! I'm so happy with the final product that we are looking to hit the two bathroom window seats next summer! It is so funny because I have to say that when I told people what we had done they asked if we were still married! I guess tiling projects have been known to test even the strongest of marriages! LOL!