With landscaping on my mind, I can not motivate myself to spend any time or money into our current house since we will be moving in the upcoming weeks. Joshua and I have taken countless trips to home improvement stores gazing at tile, lumber, crown moulding, paint etc and planning out in our heads what we would like to do with our new home once we are able to actually call it ours. But we all know that ideas always change over time, especially when you are on a budget. Just look at all of the programs on hgtv. One show that we have been keeping our eyes on is the Property Brothers. If you have not seen it, it basically is a show of two brothers, one a real estate agent, and the other is a carpenter (twins) who show a couple the house of their dreams that is move in ready then reveal to them the actual cost which is always way over their budget. They go around showing them houses, bring it down to two that the family thinks they can work with, and almost always they are complete dumps. The one brother does these amazing designs with the two final houses, and the couple chooses the one they want. If you have not yet seen the show, I urge you to at least watch one episode. You can get some amazing ideas on how to flip a space in a house, and they give some great DIY tips.
So the one thing that I would like to do that I have never done before is try my hand at doing some tile work. Since Joshua gets to put his subway tile in the kitchen, I told him that I claim the fireplace. If you have been keeping up with my journal, you know that the fireplace is nothing special.
As you can see, it is pretty standard brick and has the same flooring that is in the foyer, which is shown below:
Kind of just meh if you ask me. So I have spent some time trying to coordinate tile which isn't too expensive, but should give the area a little flare.
As a border on the flooring, I think I am going to go with this universal deco tile from home depot which is 3x13 and runs about $11.57 for each section.
Inside of the boarder, I plan on using 12x12 Montagna Lugano tile which is very simple and ties into the colors of the border chosen. ($9.99 each, also from home depot).
On the mantle covering the bricks, I plan on using Emperador blend bamboo 12x12 mesh tile. ($14.74 each, you guessed it! Home depot!). These are nice because they actually have a little bit of texture and kind of pop out of you. I think that a lot of people use too much conformity and everything is so straight and boring. Because it is kind of part of the fixtures in new builds, I think we have gotten too used to it and we need to delve out of our comfort zones a bit to make our house unique.
As for the front foyer tile, I am not quite sure what I would like to use in their yet. Perhaps that tile that looks like wood floors? The one mistake we made in our current house was put in gorgeous black marble tile. Number one, it gets dirty really easily. Two, it's always covered with a mat in the winter time to keep people from falling flat on their face right as they walk in the door and you never really see it....Lastly, it was really expensive.
So, you may be saying to yourself at this point, ok great, I have never tiled before and would love to get some instructions on doing so. Me too! I will be doing some research, and then when we move into the house, I will produce a list of supplies needed with measurements, how much everything costs, and the time that the project will take to complete! For now, stay tuned!
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